ST. LOUIS, MO, AUGUST 26 (RIA Novosti) – The police killing of an unarmed African-American teenager that provoked a fortnight of often-violent race protests in the city of Ferguson, Missouri, was an execution “in broad daylight”, resident Jayla Hilton McCrary told RIA Novosti after the funeral service for the victim.
“Michael Brown was executed in broad daylight. It’s not the first time America has heard about this. It’s been going on for hundreds of years and nobody is doing nothing. Here we are again. We’ve marched, we’ve talked – but where is it getting us?” McCrary said on Monday.
“A lot of black people round here lose hope, because the political system is so messed up. We’ve seen election miscounts. The politicians do what they want to do, and who looks over them? It’s not just Missouri, police brutality is everywhere,” she stressed.
Ferguson was paying on Monday its last respects to Michael Brown, shot dead by police officer Darren Wilson on the afternoon of August 9.
The killing triggered a wave of violent protests in St. Louis, Washington and other parts of the country, with the demonstrators demanding the arrest of the white police officer.
The situation in Ferguson, where African-American residents make up 65 percent of the town’s population, has brought up the issues of racial discrimination, human rights violations as well as an increased militarization of law enforcers criticized for bringing military tactics to civilian protests.
