Ferguson & Marketing

Tensions have flared since Tuesday afternoon when a St. Louis police officer fatally shot a 23-year-old black man wielding a knife who was acting "erratically", a few miles from the street where Brown was shot. The confluence of events has triggered racial tensions smoldering in the mostly black community. "The Ferguson police officer who shot Michael Brown didn’t stop him because he was suspected in a recent robbery, but because he was walking down the middle of the street blocking traffic." In today’s society people will come up with whatever they can, with any excuse they can think of on the top of their mind. The media is saying that “robbery does not relate to the initial contact between the officer and Michael Brown. “ But others are saying otherwise the other way around. Ferguson police released a surveillance video of the robbery but the video does not typically have anything to do with the shooting of Brown, since the media is saying that the robbery does not relate to the contact bet” because the press asked for it.” The additional information that was released added more intrigue to a case that has brought about protests in Ferguson among people who are angry at the shooting of the 18 year old Brown, and what they may know as a heavy handed response by police afterward. “The documents claim Brown roughly handled a clerk trying to stop him before walking out of the store with the box of Swisher Sweets.” The media claims that showing a surveillance video as proof of that, may have been a way to cover up and to help protect the officer. “Brown being a suspect should not have led to the use of deadly force.” Brown was not guilty of anything, therefor it should not have led to shooting.