Introduction
Author: Benjamin Levin (Washington University School of Law)
On August 9, 2014, Ferguson, Missouri Police Officer Darren Wilson shot and killed eighteen-year-old Michael Brown. Three months later, a St. Louis County grand jury declined to indict Wilson. The activism, protests, and uprisings that followed helped to catalyze movements to confront racial injustice in U.S. criminal policy. In the days, weeks, months, and years that followed, “Ferguson” came to operate as a sort of shorthand or stand in for police violence, for racial inequality, for structural racism, for extractive models of policing, and for a host of other problems, defined and undefined.
Keywords: Ferguson
How to Cite: Levin, B. (2025) “Ten Years And Ten Miles: Reflecting On “Ferguson””, Washington University Journal of Law and Policy. 78(1).
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