The events in Ferguson last year have changed our country. The protests against the shooting death of Michael Brown and the extreme police crackdown on those protests helped spark a movement to push back on police brutality and institutional racism.
The Justice Department review of the Ferguson Police Department was so brutal and ugly—calling out the role of police as revenue generators for the city, the regular use of excessive force, and the overwhelming racism permeating the department—that even right-wingers are saying Ferguson police are out of control.
Now, we have a chance to take this movement back to Ferguson and change the system that has made African Americans targets in their own hometown.
There’s an election in Ferguson next week, and we’re supporting candidates for city council that are vowing to reform this broken system.
Can you chip in $3 each to Democrats Bob Hudgin and Lee Smith to help take Ferguson back?