After Ferguson, Missouri, police officer Darren Wilson shot and killed unarmed black 18-year-old Michael Brown , residents took to the streets to protest what many saw as yet another example of police mistreatment of black Americans. The situation quickly took a turn for the worse: law enforcement lined the streets in riot gear and toting military-grade equipment, threatening demonstrators and reporters with armored vehicles, sniper rifles, rubber bullets, tear gas, and other weapons normally seen in theaters of war. A new Amnesty International report , released on October 24, outlined some of the most questionable aspects of the Brown...
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