MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE
by Michael Wolraich
Order today at Barnes & Noble / Amazon / Books-A-Million / Bookshop
MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE by Michael Wolraich Order today at Barnes & Noble / Amazon / Books-A-Million / Bookshop |
Voters in St. Louis County, Mo., have ousted veteran prosecutor Robert McCulloch, who was widely criticized in the aftermath of a deadly 2014 police shooting in Ferguson.
The slaying of Michael Brown, an unarmed black teenager, became a flash point for protests about African Americans shot and killed by police. On Tuesday, two days before the four-year anniversary of Brown’s death at the hands of a white Ferguson police officer, McCulloch lost in the St. Louis County Democratic primary to Wesley Bell, a Ferguson city council member who ran on a platform of reforming the prosecutor’s office.
Bell, who is black, won with nearly 57 percent of the vote, a margin of more than 24,000, according to the board of elections. No Republicans were on the ballot, all but guaranteeing that Bell will be St. Louis County’s next prosecutor.
Cleve R. Wootson, Jr., WaPo today
Comments
Hopefully, this means progress given that last year the city re-elected a Mayor who seemed clueless
https://www.cnn.com/2017/04/05/us/ferguson-mayoral-election/index.html
by rmrd0000 on Wed, 08/08/2018 - 12:55pm