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On August 9, 2014, Michael Brown Jr., an 18-year-old black man, was fatally shot by 28-year-old white Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson in the city of Ferguson, Missouri, a suburb of St. Louis.

Weeks of protests ensued. In the end, rioting was justified as the Officer was, as had been feared, never charged with a crime, although the City settled a Wrongful Death lawsuit.

This one's ignited passions because of the conflicting witness reports and the unorthodox manner in which the police handled the case initially, with Wilson taking his own unrecorded testimony, washing blood off his hands without photographing it first and entering his gun as evidence himself in an unsealed envelope. People usually just sided with whichever witness account matched their values in the whole "Black" vs "Blue" Lives Matter debate.

Regardless of who Brown (a kid who had graduated from high school a week prior) was and how the events unfolded, no one had to die that night. There are ways to de-escalate, and shooting a dozen bullets into a kid should not even be an option, even if he is shaped like a football player. He wasn't Hulk, and he wasn't on a rampage.

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from A Reflection On Police Brutality (Vol. 1), released May 31, 2020
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Sébastian Hell Montréal, Québec

Writer, guitarist, singer, organizer and curator of UnPop Montréal, Sébastian Hell looms large in the Montréal music scene.

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