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The shooting of Michael Brown occurred on August 9, 2014, in Ferguson, Missouri, United States and caused days of rioting by the black population.
Brown was an 18-year-old African-American male who died after being shot multiple times by Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson.
Brown was unarmed.[SUP][/SUP] Dude recently graduated from high school and was about to begin college studies and he had no history of arrests or criminal convictions.[SUP][/SUP]
Police say Brown was a suspect in an robbery minutes before the shooting, although the initial contact between Wilson and Brown was unrelated to the robbery.
Witnesses to the shooting posted photos of Mihael Brown's dead body on twitter.