We're just now seeing it for the first time because of video cameras and the internet.
It was Ferguson that propelled Black Lives Matter into the national spotlight after the police shooting death of Michael Brown because black people in this country are just sick and tired of getting killed.
But it wasn't just about Brown, whose body was left on the streets uncovered for four hours after they killed him. In Ferguson, it was about the decades of repression and oppression at the hands of police.
And around the country, tensions were reaching a boil with police shooting and killing a man named John Crawford less than a week earlier because he had been walking around a Walmart with a pellet gun in his hand that he had picked up in an aisle while on the phone with his girlfriend.
And a month earlier, Eric Garner was choked to death in New York City by a cop who smiled and waved at the camera after killing Garner because he had been selling loose cigarettes.
And the anger just continued to grow with 12-year-old Tamir Rice being shot and killed in November of that year while playing with a pellet gun in a public park by a cop who had no business being a cop because he had been fired from a previous job after they determined he was unstable to carry a gun.
And the following April, a black man named Walter Scott was shot in the back by a South Carolina cop in another incident caught on video, further adding to the tensions.
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