Killing of Michael Brown
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killing-of-michael-brown-165-5560198
title:
Killing of Michael Brown
text:
On August 9, 2014, 18-year-old Michael Brown was shot and killed by police officer Darren Wilson in Ferguson, Missouri, a suburb of St. Louis. Brown was accompanied by his 22-year-old male friend Dorian Johnson. Wilson, a white male Ferguson police officer, said that an altercation ensued when Brown attacked him in his police vehicle for control of Wilson's service pistol. The struggle continued until the pistol fired. Johnson said that Wilson initiated a confrontation by grabbing Brown by the n
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
2014 fatal police shooting of a black man
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_Michael_Brown
date created:
2014-08-11T15:23:58Z
date modified:
2024-08-29T08:18:35Z
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