Black Lives Matter: 2014: Michael Brown, Eric Garner, and Tamir Rice

• Ferguson Timeline: Grief, Anger, and Tension | NPR
• What happened when Michael Brown met Officer Darren Wilson | CNN

  In-depth timeline with map and comparison of witness accounts and law enforcement
• Ferguson Jury: No Charges For Officer In Michael Brown's Death | NPR

  Detailed timeline of events that took place on November 24, 2014, the date of indictment

• Documenting Ferguson

  "[A] digital repository that seeks to preserve and make accessible community- and media-generated, original content that was captured and created following the killing of 18-year-old, Michael Brown by police officer Darren Wilson in Ferguson, Missouri on August 9, 2014. A freely available resource for students, scholars, teachers, and the greater community, Documenting Ferguson has the ultimate goal of providing diverse perspectives of the events surrounding the conflicts in Ferguson."
• Ferguson articles on Colorlines

  Listing of all articles about Ferguson on Colorlines
• #Ferguson on Twitter

  See real time and past Tweets about Ferguson. Other hashtags to explore: #ericgarner for news about another police killing of an African American man in New York. #blacklivesmatter #crimingwhilewhite

• Repetitive Motion Disorder: Black Reality and White Denial in America by Tim Wise
• The New Threat: 'Racism without Racists' | CNN
• Things To Stop Being Distracted By When A Black Person Gets Murdered By Police | Black Girl Dangerous

  A discussion of how post-non-indictment rebellion is not "looting" or a "riot."
• How to Really Understand White Privilege | Quartz

  In comic form
• Hands Up: A Roundtable on Police Brutality | n+1
• All Eyes on Ferguson | Bitch Magazine

  Review of indictment with examination of racial profiling and killing by police officers.
• MTV's Look Different

  Collaboration between MTV and the Southern Poverty Law Center to create PSAs and online interaction related to racism, privilege, and inequality surrounding Ferguson events
• Why It's Impossible to Indict a Cop | The Nation

  "It’s not just Ferguson—here’s how the system protects police."
• A Herstory of the #BlackLivesMatter Movement | The Feminist Wire

  An account of how the #BlackLivesMatter movement began and where it stands currently by one of its founders

Racial Profiling from Opposing Viewpoints

Is Misconduct in Law Enforcement a Serious Problem? in Police Brutality from Opposing Viewpoints

Human Rights Watch 

• Dispatch: Tracking US Police Brutality

• Shielded from justice : police brutality and accountability in the United States.

Department of Justice

• Cops office: Ethics and Integrity

• U.S. Justice Department on the City of Cleveland Police

American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)

• Blog of Rights: Police Brutality

• Blog of Rights: Militarization of Police

• Blog of Rights: Police Body Cameras

Journalist's Resource

• Excessive or reasonable force by police? Research on law enforcement and racial conflict in the wake of Ferguson

On the power of protests from SFGATE.com
"It’s a performance, and that’s the point. Nonviolent action has always been a performance that creates the space for a reckoning."

In Three Minutes... from Washington Post

General information from New York Times 

More on the case:

• From MSNBC
• From ABCNews  (this was before we knew the decision) 
• On the rarity of a ferderal grand jury not indicting from Washington Post
• Ferguson by the numbers from Mother Jones
• Obama's response as reported by the National Journal

 Local Ferguson twitters:

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What is Violence (and isn't) by Mia McKenzie (wrote Black Girl Dangerous)

Op Ed from Washington Post 

Eyewitness Reports from the DailyKos

Eric Garner died on July 17, 2014 on Staten Island after being put into a chokehold by a police officer who suspected he was selling loose cigarettes. On December 3rd a Staten Island Grand Jury decided not to indict the police officer who killed Garner.

Articles Before the Grand Jury Decision (background)

• Behind the video from Time Magazine
• What we see in the Eric Garner video from NPR
• Death of a Man in Custody from New York Times

Articles After the Grand Jury Decision

• Protests in NYC from the New York Times
• de Blasio Reacts as a Mayor and a Father from the New York Times

Tamir Rice, a 12 year old boy, was shot by a Cleveland Police Officer on November 22, 2014 after police responded to a dispatch call describing a young African American man wielding a gun at people in a city park. On December 4, 2014, U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder concluded that the Cleveland Police Department uses excessive force after justice officers examined over 600 cases from 2010-2013.