Michael Brown's death and the subsequent protests in Ferguson, Missouri, have national civil rights organizations' attention as calls for peace and justice grow louder.
After a day of peaceful protests in Ferguson, Missouri, chaos erupted Friday night and Saturday morning as looters robbed local businesses and police stood back.
The police named Officer Darren Wilson as the man involved in Michael Brown's shooting and revealed that Brown had been a suspect in a robbery 30 minutes before his death.
The protests turned peaceful as state troopers have taken over Missouri state troopers took over security on Thursday in Ferguson, Missouri, where protests bordering on riots have been taking place after a police officer killed an unarmed black teenager in the town outside of St.
The St. Louis County Police Department no longer has policing authority in Ferguson, Missouri, the suburban community that has been swamped with racially charged protests over the shooting of an unarmed black teenager by a white cop last week.
In Ferguson, Missouri, two-thirds of the population is black, but the city's police force is dominantly white. The disproportion of Ferguson's overall population and police department has alarmed people of potential racial profiling.
