{"id":68080,"date":"2019-08-09T04:30:00","date_gmt":"2019-08-09T04:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:/wp-json/wp/v2/article/68080///wp-json/wp/v2/article/68080//www.yesmagazine.org/wp-json/wp/v2/article/68080//article/wp-json/wp/v2/article/68080//peace-justice-ferguson-police-shooting-uprising-20190808/wp-json/wp/v2/article/68080//"},"modified":"2022-07-28T16:18:27","modified_gmt":"2022-07-28T23:18:27","slug":"ferguson-police-shooting-uprising","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:/wp-json/wp/v2/article/68080///wp-json/wp/v2/article/68080//www.yesmagazine.org/wp-json/wp/v2/article/68080//social-justice/wp-json/wp/v2/article/68080//2019/wp-json/wp/v2/article/68080//08/wp-json/wp/v2/article/68080//09/wp-json/wp/v2/article/68080//ferguson-police-shooting-uprising","title":{"rendered":"Five Years After Ferguson Uprising, Still Seeking Justice and Healing"},"content":{"rendered":"

Michael Brown Sr. lies stock-still on his back on the floor of an art studio in St. Louis as an artist layers papier-mache on his arms, chest, and torso./wp-json/wp/v2/article/68080/n

Brown Sr. is a stand-in, the model for a life-size replica that St. Louis artist Dail Chambers is creating to represent Michael Brown Jr./wp-json/wp/v2/article/68080/u2014his deceased son./wp-json/wp/v2/article/68080/n

In the days and weeks that followed, other artists added their own interpretations to the cast, and community leaders, family, friends, and activists affixed messages of remembrance, of hope, as well as photos and tributes to Brown Jr./wp-json/wp/v2/article/68080/n

/wp-json/wp/v2/article/68080/u201cAlthough everybody else has left since your death, we are still here fighting,/wp-json/wp/v2/article/68080/u201d one 16-year-old girl wrote./wp-json/wp/v2/article/68080/n

The final exhibit, called /wp-json/wp/v2/article/68080/u201cAs I See You,/wp-json/wp/v2/article/68080/u201d will be part of a memorial Aug. 9/wp-json/wp/v2/article/68080/u201311 for Brown Jr., five years after a police officer took the 18-year-old/wp-json/wp/v2/article/68080/u2019s life in Ferguson, Missouri./wp-json/wp/v2/article/68080/n

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The memorial weekend/wp-json/wp/v2/article/68080/u2019s events will include a private unveiling of the exhibit for the family members of 25 victims of police killings across the country, and will coincide with the first national reparations convening in Ferguson, beginning Aug. 8./wp-json/wp/v2/article/68080/n

Brown Jr. was not the first unarmed Black man killed by a White police officer. But his death on Aug. 9, 2014, grabbed the world/wp-json/wp/v2/article/68080/u2019s attention, exposing long-festering issues of race and inequality in the United States and bringing new energy to a simmering Movement for Black Lives./wp-json/wp/v2/article/68080/n

In death, Brown Jr. became a household name, and the small, mostly Black city where he died became the/wp-json/wp/v2/article/68080/u00a0movement/wp-json/wp/v2/article/68080/u2019s/wp-json/wp/v2/article/68080/u00a0ground zero. Both will be forever linked to the tragedy and trauma around police shootings and the will of a frustrated people to rise up against injustice./wp-json/wp/v2/article/68080/n