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Ferguson

See all of the reports by Democracy Now! on protests in Ferguson, Missouri, which started over the killing of unarmed black teenager Michael Brown and have since widened to address nationwide police brutality, racial profiling by police and poverty. Watch our on the ground coverage in Ferguson, when demonstrators defied a militarized crackdown to call for the arrest of police officer Darren Wilson, who shot Brown. Browse the related interviews below with activists, lawmakers, scholar, and authors such as Dr. Cornel West and Michelle Alexander.

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