The white police officer who shot black teenager Michael Brown dead has resigned, nearly four months after the confrontation that fueled protests in the US city of St Louis and across the country.
Darren Wilson had been on administrative leave since the August 9 shooting.
Darren Wilson’s resignation has been widely anticipated.
Still, it’s likely that those in Ferguson who’ve been angered that Wilson wasn’t indicted will welcome his resignation.
It’s almost impossible to imagine him as a police officer patrolling a community that believes he’s guilty of at least the wrongful death of Michael Brown.
Civil rights activists have been calling for protests to focus now on changes in Missouri state law to restrict the use of deadly force by police and to explicitly outlaw racial profiling by officers.
That’s what marchers are calling for as they make their way 190km from Ferguson to the state capital Jefferson city over the next week.
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