by J. Pharoah Doss, For New Pittsburgh Courier
In 2014 a White police officer shot and killed a Black teenager in Ferguson, Missouri.
The shooting wasn’t recorded, but eyewitnesses insisted that the Black teenager was killed with his hands up, begging the White officer not to shoot.
The police commissioner acknowledged most of the arrest made were of local residents, but he stressed “outside agitators continued to be the instigators behind the acts of violence and destruction.”
Schneider ignored the fact that Capt. Johnson didn’t just call the people from out of state outsiders he listed Missourians who weren’t from Ferguson as outside agitators too.
But the riots were blamed on disadvantaged youth, the police claim of outside agitators was labeled a myth, and the story within the story disappeared.
