More than 200 people held a rally in downtown Milwaukee, to remember Michael Brown, the Missouri teenager recently shot to death by police.
One of the Milwaukee speakers was Craig Stingley, whose son Corey died in 2012 when white citizens detained the youth in a West Allis convenience store. Stingley considers the death of Corey, Michael Brown, and some other African-American males as murders.
“Understand murder anywhere is murder everywhere,” he said to the crowd. “Our children were murdered, and the people who did it, they need to be held accountable for it.”
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This year, the Milwaukee County district attorney announced he would not issue charges against the men who restrained Corey Stingley.
A police report in the Michael Brown case in Missouri was released on Friday. Critics say the report lacks key details.
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