The massive demonstrations that followed the shooting of Michael Brown helped to solidify the Black Lives Matter movement in Ferguson, Mo., and around the country.
St. Louis County, Mo., prosecutor said that he will not be charging the White police officer who shot 18-year-old Brown in 2014, after quietly reopening the investigation. And after a five month investigation into the case’s evidence, witness statements and forensic reports, he came to the conclusion that “we cannot prove that he” committed murder or manslaughter.
Civil rights leaders and Brown's mother reportedly hoped that Prosecuting Attorney Wesley Bell, who became the county’s first Black prosecutor in January 2019, might reopen the investigation into police officer Darren Wilson, who shot Brown six years ago.
Bell told reporters today that his decision was “one of the most difficult things I’ve had to do."
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