Michael Brown - Obama Presidency Oral History Back Michael Brown Index / People Transcripts Eric Holder ...mentioned, including the shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson [Missouri], which wa... ...in Ferguson after the shooting of Michael Brown . Made a determination that if Barac... ...telling people that publicly, telling Michael Brown 's parents that that's the pledge tha... ...to remember what it was like when the Michael Brown shooting occurred. This was somethin... ...incidents that happened later on. The Michael Brown case could've simply been a moment, bu... Brittany Packnett ...point, a few years in your job when Michael Brown was shot and killed. And I wa... ...reveal for all of us, the day that Michael Brown Jr. was shot and killed. And I say tha... ...for them?” So, this is a year before Michael Brown Jr. gets killed. So the polite racis... ...die?” And I said, “Yes. His name is Michael Brown Jr. And that's why we're here. An... ...first day, August tenth, the day after Michael Brown Jr. was killed, revisiting the kind o... ...calling during the Ferguson uprising. Mike Brown forever changed all of our lives. An... ...ever measure up to the sacrifice that Michael Brown Sr. and Lesley McSpadden had t... ...the city. It was in Ferguson for Mike Brown . It was in a neighborhood calle... ...the Ferguson Police Department and to Michael Brown Jr. But the more that we talk with ou... ...didn't get any smarter after killing Mike Brown . They didn't move any more carefully... ...time in jail that the man who murdered Mike Brown . So that's what I saw.” You would hav... ...of what we had to do between 2014, when Michael Brown Jr. was killed, and 2020, when thi... Show more... Vanita Gupta ...Particularly, I came in right after Michael Brown had been killed in Ferguson [Missouri]... ...really driven, I would say, by both Michael Brown 's killing—Eric Garner was killed tha... ...the local police department. While Michael Brown 's death had triggered unrest all ove... ...further intensified and galvanized by Michael Brown 's death. And I would say there was n... ...At that point, this was two years after Michael Brown had been killed. There had been a fe... Claudia Rankine ...again and again and again gets to Michael Brown 's killing a couple of years later i... ...You went to Ferguson not long after Michael Brown was killed. Can you talk about tha... ...“Do you know where this happened to Michael Brown ?” And she said, “It's my ol... ...sidewalk; a massive police presence. Michael Brown 's shooting was the moment when w... ...the abandonment, in Katrina's case. Michael Brown hadn't been killed yet, but the death... ...been killed yet, but the deaths like Michael Brown where the police were then let off. S... ...President Obama and Trayvon Martin and Michael Brown . But the Obama administration was als... Show more... Sophia Ford-Glanton ...in Ferguson, Missouri, the shooting of Michael Brown . Could you talk about, to the exten... ...followed afterwards? So, with the Michael Brown protest—Michael Brown was before Tamir... ...So, with the Michael Brown protest— Michael Brown was before Tamir. And I had not becom... ...and taking care of my kids. With Michael Brown , I'm, like—at first, it was, like, Oh... ...were bad, or could be bad. So with Michael Brown , I didn't understand what wa... ...on. I didn't get the full experience of Michael Brown , because I still was not aware of wha... Show more... Ben Rhodes ...You mentioned this coincides with Michael Brown being killed in Ferguson [Missouri]. ... ...a snowball rolling down a mountain, and Michael Brown and the Ferguson protestors and ISI... Denis McDonough ...public tempers were over Ferguson and Michael Brown . I guess I just raise that as kind o... Cody Keenan ...but the person who was running FEMA, Michael Brown , was a lawyer for horses or something... ...Ferguson [Missouri protests] after Michael Brown was fatally shot by a police officer i... Sybrina Fulton ...Grant, Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, Mike Brown , Tamir Rice. The ones that yo... Broderick Johnson ...which, as you know, is the murder of Michael Brown , an unarmed Black teenager— ... ...the foundation. Again, I believe that Michael Brown 's family members are in the audienc... ...when you mentioned Freddie Gray and Michael Brown , and Trayvon—you know, one of the mos... Load more Transcripts Related Topics go to the Gun Control Gun Control go to the Nuclear Nonproliferation Nuclear Nonproliferation go to the Agriculture Agriculture go to the Counterterrorism Counterterrorism go to the Black Politics Black Politics