Ferguson Revisited: The Worst Night
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4.5 • 6K Ratings
🗓️ 7 August 2019
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
Its been five years since Michael Brown was shot and killed by officer Darren Wilson in the middle of Ferguson’s Canfield Drive. His death at the hands of a police officer sparked protests across the country and cemented the Black Lives Matter movement into the American consciousness.
In the first of our three-part series, we ask: "On the worst night of clashes between protestors and police in Ferguson, what didn't we see?"
Guest: Joel Anderson, Host of Slow Burn.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, everybody. A quick word about language here at the top. For the next couple of days, |
| 0:04.4 | we're going to be revisiting what happened in Ferguson, Missouri, five years ago. As we do that, |
| 0:10.1 | you're going to be hearing tape with some pretty raw language, including racial slurs. We've decided |
| 0:15.9 | to include that language because it reflects how people felt in the moment. All right, here we go. |
| 0:37.2 | When you listen to the video of the very first moments after Michael Brown was killed, |
| 0:42.6 | you can hear the frustration that would fuel so much of what happened next. |
| 0:47.5 | Dead body. |
| 0:49.3 | Live from first, and they just killed this nigga for no reason. |
| 0:53.9 | This tape is from August 9, 2014, just past 12th noon. |
| 0:59.1 | Michael Brown is in the middle of Ferguson's Canfield Drive. |
| 1:03.1 | He's just been shot by police officer Darren Wilson. |
| 1:06.2 | Yellow caution tape is holding a crowd back. |
| 1:08.8 | Just barely. |
| 1:10.3 | What do you do? What do you do? |
| 1:11.6 | Do you see a gun? |
| 1:13.6 | Do you see a knife? |
| 1:14.6 | Do you see anything that would have caused a threat to these motherfuck of police officers? |
| 1:17.6 | They shocked that boy because they wanted to shoot that. |
| 1:19.6 | Wait, hold on, what? |
| 1:20.6 | After this live stream, Brown's body stayed in the middle of the street for hours in the summer sun. |
| 1:32.8 | Neighbor after neighbor came out of their homes, opened up their cell phones, and started recording. |
| 1:41.4 | They said, I'm off there. |
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