Ferguson ‘taste of things to come’, by Nafeez Ahmed
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The shooting of unarmed black teenager Michael Brown in Ferguson, a district of St. Louis County in Minnesota, and the spate of civil unrest that followed, could set a precedent for the future of American society according to a senior Iraq war veteran and Pentagon defence analyst. Terron Sims, an African American active in local Democratic politics who had previously served five years in the United States Army, told me during an interview last month that without a fundamental cultural and institutional change in American policing across the country, the US could see more Ferguson-type events in the near future.