This past weekend, in a tense press conference, Missouri Governor Jay Nixon declared a state of emergency and called for a curfew in Ferguson, the St. Louis suburb where protesters have been clashing violently with law-enforcement officials following the fatal police shooting of Michael Brown, an unarmed black teenager. “This is a test,” Nixon said. “The eyes of the world are watching.” Knowingly or not, Nixon was echoing words used for the past six decades to protest police brutality and government neglect in the United States over the past six decades. The phrase “the whole world is watching”—a pithy …read more
Source: The Atlantic
