He’s a Veteran of Upheaval, Molded by Ferguson’s Traumas. He’s 7 [nytimes.com]

Rafael Maravilla(PACEs Connection Staff) 8/9/1912:00 PM

By Jack Healy and Julie Bosman, The New York Times, August 8, 2019

David Morrison carries the scars of Ferguson’s upheaval. A veteran protester, he has fled gunshots and tear gas, marched, waved signs and played dead on the asphalt in years of activism that unspooled after a white police officer killed an unarmed black teenager named Michael Brown. “I’m so angry!” he shouts.

He is 7 years old.

This is the inheritance of Ferguson’s children. Five years after they lay in bed listening to sirens or tiptoed outside in their pajamas to see police officers in riot gear battling protesters, a generation of largely African-American children in Ferguson has been molded by the unrest of 2014 and a messy epilogue of halting progress and still-raw racial divides.

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