On August nine two thousand fourteen, Michael Brown, an eighteen year old African American was shot to death by a white police officer in Missouri. After a surveillance camera captured a man shoving a clerk and walking out of the store with a box of cigarettes, nine one one was called. Michael and his friend Dorian are walking in the middle of a street and are suddenly confronted by an Officer, he tells them ‘Get the f*** on the sidewalk’ or ‘Get the f*** out of the street,’ and they both replied, ‘not but a minute away from our destination, and we would shortly be out of the street. Michael and Dorian begin to run, Dorian hides behind the first car he can see, he said. The officer gets out of his car and grabs Michael by his neck and Michael tries to pull away. ‘My friend, Big Mike, very angrily is trying to pull away from the officer,’ said Dorian. Then the officer takes out his gun and says ”I’ll shoot’
or ‘I’m about to shoot.’ Dorian then saw the gun being pointed at them and he moved seconds before he pulled the trigger. ‘I saw the officer proceeding after my friend Big Mike with his gun drawn, and he fired a second shot and that struck my friend Big Mike,’ Johnson said. ‘And at that time, he turned around with his hands up, beginning to tell the officer that he was unarmed and to tell him to stop shooting. But at that time, the officer fired several more shots into my friend, and he hit the ground and died.’He then looked at his friend Big Mike and saw that he was struck in the chest or upper region. Michaels wounds included a shot to the hand from close range, the official autopsy found, according to a report in the St.Louis Post-Dispatch newspaper. Michaels blood was found on the officers uniform and in his police car. At least one of the wounds demonstrated that there was a struggle inside the police car.