Michael Brown Sr. Leads Crowd of Hundreds in Moment of Silence

Michael Brown Sr. led a crowd of hundreds in a march through Ferguson, Missouri on Sunday, August 9, commemorating the death of his son, Michael Brown, a black teenager who was fatally shot by a white police officer one year ago. The group observed a moment of silence for 4:30 minutes, symbolizing the hours that Brown’s body lay in the street after the shooting, at 12:02pm, the time he was killed, according to reports.

Brown Sr. is pictured in the footage speaking at the intersection near Canfield Apartments where his son was killed. Credit: Sunflower Community Action