My mother called probably about what he left me

And told me she had a bad feeling and I need to go get Mike and I tell them I get done

Folding these clothes I go over there and get them

Five years ago this week Michael Brown senior lost his son. I got a phone call day. He was

Land in the middle of the street dead

Michael Brown junior was black. He was 18 and he was unarmed when he was shot dead by Darren Wilson a white police officer in

Ferguson, Missouri

And as Michael Brown senior was trying to process this news

His son's killing was becoming an international story in a suburb of St. Louis on Saturday afternoon a police officer

Shot and killed an unarmed black teenager. This is code switch from MBR. I'm Jane Demby. Shireen is out this week

What exactly happened on August 9th?

2014 is contested even to this day, but here's what we do know

Michael Brown junior and his friend were walking down the street in Ferguson when officer Wilson in a police car

Stop them and here's where the stories diverge

Officer Wilson said there was some kind of altercation through the police car door in which Brown reached for Wilson's gun

Michael Brown's friend who was with them said that didn't happen

Someone this to say Brown was running at officer Wilson like he was trying to attack him

But other people said that Michael Brown junior had his hands up like he was surrendering

But tensions between the residents in this mostly black city and its mostly white police department had been simmering for a long time

So when Michael Brown junior was killed and his body lay for the better part of a sweltering August afternoon

Surrounded by police and police tape

Those frustrations boiled over last night violence erupted again after the police released the name of the officer

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