Walking while black

Indledning
The violence and discrimination happening in America as a consequence of black people being treated badly and killed for no reason is what this article are focusing on. The article is about the killing of Michael Brown, and the consequences of the murder. It also contains Ishmael Sistrunks opinion of the murder and the way black people are being treated by the white police officers in America, and specially in Ferguson. So how bad is it actually in North County.

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Uddrag
Walking while black: Michael Brown, black men and white officers by Ishmael Sistrunk is an article from the American newspaper The St. Louis American.

The sender of the article who is Ishmael Sistrunk was born in the city of St. Louis, and he has been living there most of his life. Ishmael is actually a sport journalist, but the incident in Ferguson made him write about the racism and discrimination going on.

Ishmael Sistrunk is an African American himself, and that is also the major reason why he is so upset about the incident that has happened in the small town of Ferguson. Ferguson is a small city in St. Louis, Mississippi. It is the city where Michael Brown where shot and killed by an American police officer in August 2014.

The death of Michael Brown caused a lot of disturbance in America. People were mad, and there was a lot of demonstrations in Ferguson.

Demonstrators looted grocery stores and gas stations to steal. A lot were going on in Ferguson after the killing of 18-year-old Michael Brown. Not only in Ferguson, but in all of America.