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: Governing Through Crime

Ferguson and Human Dignity

By Jonathan Simor

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Michael Brown was buried yesterday (August 25, 2014) in St. Louis, near his hometown of Ferguson, Missouri. As the world knows by now, two weeks ago the eighteen-year-old recent high-school graduate was shot six times and killed by Ferguson Police Officer Darren Wilson. Michael Brown was unarmed, and the reasons for Officer Wilson?s actions have yet to be publicly explained. In a recent post, Professor Alessandro De Giorgi of San Jose State University (and editorial board member of Social Justice) puts those still unclear facts into the very clear context of what he aptly describes as the ?complex penal machinery that has gradually colonized the US public space?from schools to university campuses, from urban centers to gated communities, from shopping malls to public transportation systems...continue to full post

Full post as published by Governing Through Crime on August 26, 2014 (boomark / email).