Mike Brown Case: Actor Jesse Williams tells CNN he knows plenty of white kids who steal too

BY DUNIA MAG

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It’s another tragic case that has gripped national and international attention: an unarmed black teen Michael Brown (18 years old) shot multiple times and left dead on a neighborhood street by a white police officer named Darren Wilson.

Accounts of why and how the teenager was killed on August 9, his body left unattended for hours have been conflicting.

Thee Pharoah, a young Ferguson rapper watching from his apartment nearby tweeted about the shooting of Mike Brown moments after it happened (Colorful language and graphic imagery may be disturbing to some):

Mr Pharoah went on to tweet a photo of the scene – Mike Brown’s body laying in the middle of the street:

The teenager is alleged to have been shot 2 times as he ran from the officer and numerous times as he turned around, his arms in the air.

Reuters, August 17, 2014:

The U.S. Department of Justice and the St. Louis County Police department are investigating Brown’s death, which has been described differently by the police and by a friend who was walking with him at the time. Police say that after Wilson asked Brown to move out of the road onto a sidewalk, Brown reached into the patrol car and struggled with Wilson for the officer’s service gun. Wilson, who sustained a facial injury, then shot Brown a number of times.
The friend, Dorian Johnson, 22, and at least one other witness have said the officer reached out through his car window to grab at Brown and the teenager was trying to get away from the officer when he was shot. Brown held up his hands in a sign of surrender but the officer got out of his patrol car and shot Brown several times, they said.

The night after a state of emergency is declared and curfew imposed by the state’s governor, protesters would again clash with police officers, leading to the arrest of 7 citizens.

The Christian Monitor:

The weeklong series of clashes have roiled St. Louis and worried a nation that remains segregated in many areas. But it has also exposed a seam of racial frustration that rarely surfaces in this transforming river city and manufacturing center, where white flight from dozens of municipalities circling St. Louis has created a strange juxtaposition of a white power structure – nearly all local police are white – in towns that are largely black.
The anger was palpable Saturday night as the curfew approached. The protesters’ message is simple: Arrest Wilson, the police officer who witnesses claim shot Brown to death even after he raised his arms in surrender.

Mike Brown lived in Ferguson, Missouri, where two-thirds of the 21,000 inhabitants are black, and of 53 local police officers, only three are African American.

As thousands continue to rally around the country in support of Mike Brown, unified in their demands for justice, there’s underlying frustration over the release of a video by the police chief of the victim allegedly robbing a convenience store moments before he was killed by the police officer who was unaware of the store incident.

Actor and activist Jesse Williams (Grey’s Anatomy) had this to share on CNN this morning:

 

Ferguson protesters

FERGUSON, MO – AUGUST 11: With their hands raised (the surrender posture, which Brown was showing when he was killed has become symbolic of the protests) residents gather at a police line as the neighborhood is locked down following skirmishes on August 11, 2014 in Ferguson, Missouri. Police responded with tear gas as residents and their supporters protested the shooting by police of an unarmed black teenager named Michael Brown who was killed Saturday in this suburban St. Louis community. Yesterday 32 arrests were made after protests turned into rioting and looting in Ferguson. (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images)

Ferguson police

FERGUSON, MO – AUGUST 11: Police officers equipped in riot gear line up during a protest of the shooting death of 18-year-old Michael Brown outside Ferguson Police Department Headquarters August 11, 2014 in Ferguson, Missouri. The fatal shooting by police of the unarmed teen in Ferguson, Missouri has sparked outrage in the community and set off civil unrest including looting and vandalism. (Photo by Michael B. Thomas/Getty Images)

 

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