Friend of Michael Brown who helped spark ‘hands up, don’t shoot’ chant dies after being shot in Ferguson
Eleven years after Michael Brown’s officer in Ferguson, Michael Brown, led to protest waves against the police savagery, and when he took place, the friend with Brown was shot and killed.
According to Ferguson Police Spokesman Patricia Washington, 33 -year -old Dorian Johnson was a victim of fire in a circle block than a miles where Brown died at 8:30 on Sunday.
Johnson’s 2014 killing account of Johnson helped inspire the iconic “hands up, firing” protests in the US demonstrations that year, but the next investigations called on the details of Brown’s actions before he died.
Washington is detained in Johnson’s deadly shot on Sunday, and said, “The investigation is still very active,” he said.
Police Department stressed that Johnson was not shot by an officer.
“There were rumors that this was a shot about the officer, but the information was not wrong. Ferguson or any other kind of civil servant did not participate in this event except starting our investigation,” Police Department said in a statement.
Ferguson Reverberate Memories
It is a temporary monument near Michael Brown’s shooting scene, which was shown in October 2014. – Scott Olson/Getty Images
A 18 -year -old black man, Brown was shot by the white police officer Darren Wilson on August 9, 2014 at Canfield Drive. He was unarmed. Wilson argued that Brown hit the brown in defense because he was accused of him.
Johnson said he was with Brown when Wilson went into his patrol. Johnson and Brown escaped from the driver’s side window of the police car between Brown and Wilson.
According to the Federal Inspectors, Brown returned to Wilson, and fatal shots were fired. Johnson said that Brown met the officer in surrender, but this claim was warmly objected and A Ministry of Justice Investigation He found that other witnesses gave various explanations, including gathering his hands with his hands as he moved to Wilson, including gathering his fists and pulling his pants.
Johnson’s event version, “Hands up, don’t shoot” echoed cheer Protests throughout the country On the police practices following the murder of Brown and the Great Jury Decision Wilson. Brown’s family brought a wrong death case against the city and In 2017, he reached an agreement.
Despite the inconclusive findings of the details of the shootings, the Ministry of Justice in a separate civil rights investigation of the Ferguson Police Department and the city of the city “Pattern and Application” conjunctive Discrimination against black inhabitants.
Ten years after Michael Brown’s shooting, Ferguson Police Chief Troy Doyle said that the murder of Brown to CNN continued to affect the department and approach. Doyle drew attention to an African American representation of about 50% – compared to less than five of approximately 60 civil servants employed in 2014. Officers received training on implicit prejudice and use of force.
Chelsea Bailey and CNN staff of CNN contributed to this report.
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