Morning Edition traveled to Ferguson and spoke to residents and leaders who have continued pushing for change in city that was thrust into the national spotlight after the killing of an unarmed 18-year-old year.
traveled to Ferguson and spoke to residents and leaders who have continued pushing for change in city that was thrust into the national spotlight after the killing of an unarmed 18-year-old year.A memorial for Michael Brown Jr. stands on the site he was killed in 2014 by a white Ferguson police officer on Tuesday, Aug. 6, 2024, along Canfield Drive in Ferguson.Michael Brown graduated from high school eight days before a Ferguson police officer shot and killed him in the street.
A memorial plaque sits next to a phone booth art piece on Tuesday, Aug. 6, 2024, at the Ferguson Empowerment Center in Ferguson.“What made me think it could and would change was the people in the streets in Ferguson in 2014,” Blake Strode, the executive director of ArchCity Defenders toldFerguson isn’t the same place it was 10 years ago, and many people who call it home are trying to make it better.
Blake Strode, the executive director of ArchCity Defenders, on Tuesday, Aug. 6, 2024, outside of the Ferguson Police Department in Ferguson.ArchCity Defenders has seen a significant decrease in the amount of fines and fees issued to residents in Ferguson and the surrounding municipalities. In 2013, municipal court revenues in the Saint Louis region were about $61 million in 2023.
Doyle is hoping that the police department will be completely compliant with the federal consent decree in the next two years. “It's just a system that no one would design unless you were actually trying to profit from poor people,” Strode said.would greatly reduce the amount of over policing in these areas by forcing the system to stop focusing on generating revenue.
Dennis Jethroe, 50, of Ferguson, writes the name of a loved one on a paper leaf on Tuesday, Aug. 6, 2024, during an art exhibit at the Ferguson Empowerment Center in Ferguson.“It pushed me and the team at the Urban League to do things that we had never done before because they needed to be done,” McMillan said.
LaKeysha Givens-Fields, the St. Louis-area social services director at The Salvation Army, on Tuesday, Aug. 6, 2024, at the Ferguson Empowerment Center in Ferguson.“The center is for opportunity and new beginnings,” said LaKeysha Fields, the St Louis Regional Social Services Director for the Salvation Army.
“I don't know that this building being here would have prevented what happened. Hopefully there would have been some buffer, less likelihood,” Fields said.NPR spoke to some Ferguson residents and asked how they feel their city has changed.
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