Forward Through Ferguson has made its mark on its community and the St. Louis region by focusing on justice and education, racial equity, and policing reform. The Missouri nonprofit was founded in 2015 to enact the societal changes outlined in the Ferguson Commission report to address the issues that contributed to the police shooting death … Read more
The state’s law enforcement overseers have removed the certification of a police sergeant over his alleged failure to report the rape of a 14-year-old student by another officer while both worked for the Hopkinton police. According to the Police Officer Standards and Training commission, Milford Sgt. Timothy Brennan should not be certified to work as … Read more
A decade. A whisper in the grand narrative of time, yet a chasm in the lives cleaved by the summer of 2014. It was a season punctuated by two names, two lives prematurely extinguished: Eric Garner and Michael Brown. Their deaths, separated by three weeks, became enmeshed in the grim chronicle of racialized police violence, … Read more
