Tension Heightens In Ferguson, Journalists Arrested While Covering Protests

He recounted his arrested sharing:

The officer in question, who I repeatedly later asked for his name, grabbed my things and shoved them into my bag. He used his finger to put a pressure point on my neck. They essentially acted as a military force. It was incredible. The worst part was he slammed my head against the glass purposefully on the way out of McDonald’s and then sarcastically apologized for it.

With protests, looting and more running rampant in Ferguson as a result of Mike Brown’s murder, tension remains high between citizens and law enforcement. 

Howard University students have taken a stand by organizing this photo above, with the hashtag  #DONTSHOOTUS. Unfortunately, the Michael Brown shooting follows a string of recent, and not so recent, incidences where unarmed black men (and men of color) have died at the hands of police officers. 

[Huffington Post, Associated Press] 

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