Michael Brown robbed a store, violently attacked the clerk, then tried to kill a police officer who defended himself and, in so doing, killed Brown.
The death of Brown, 18, in August 2014, led to days of riots and looting in Ferguson, Mo., chants of “hands up, don’t shoot,” and the resurgence of the group Black Lives Matter, which has now grown into an international organization. In the days after the shooting — especially on mainstream network TV like CNN and NBC — Brown was portrayed as being an innocent victim, of being targeted by a white policeman simply because he was black, of being shot in the back as he tried to flee.
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