Ella Jones' win comes six years after the fatal shooting in Ferguson of black teenager Michael Brown at the hands of a white police officer
in 2017, saying then that black people in the community did not think her winning would impact the city.
“And when you’ve been governed by fear and people telling you that the city is going to decline because an African-American person is going to be in charge, then you tend to listen to the rhetoric and don’t open your mind to new possibilities.” Ferguson is one of the hundred-plus cities around the nation where protests have erupted since the death last week of, a 46-year-old security guard who pleaded for air while an officer knelt on his neck for more than eight minutes.
Though Minneapolis remains the epicenter, there have been protests in Atlanta, Chicago, Dallas, Los Angeles and New York City, among others.
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