FERGUSON, Mo. (AP) — Ferguson protesters are using a roasted pig’s head during a demonstration marking the eve of the one-year anniversary of Michael Brown’s shooting death.
After a peaceful march during the day, hundreds of protesters converged outside the police department after 10 p.m. They carved and ate from the pig’s head, which was placed on a concrete barrier near the building. Earlier in the day, someone had scrawled the name “Darren Wilson” on the side of the animal.
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#ferguson residents drop severed pigs head torn from body marked #DarrenWilson outside #ferguson PD #MikeBrownAugust pic.twitter.com/x3cOaZ47oN
— greg jeske (@gregjeske) August 9, 2015
4Wilson wasn’t charged in the Aug. 9, 2014, shooting of the black 18-year-old, whose death galvanized the “Black Lives Matter” movement and months of protests in the St. Louis suburb and beyond.
About a dozen officers stood watch outside while many others were stationed inside police department.
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This story has been corrected to show that Darren Wilson’s name had been written on the side of the pig, not the head.
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