MARTIN BARON

Reporter Wesley Lowery was arrested in the 2014 protest demonstrations in Ferguson, MO when the police were badly mishandling the crowd control of people angry that a young black man with is hands up was shot and killed by a white officer of the almost totally segregated police force in an overwhelmingly black community. The area, was a vestige of the Jim Crow South and resented the press and especially the outside press.

Reporter Wesley Lowery was arrested in the 2014 protest demonstrations in Ferguson, MO when the police were badly mishandling the crowd control of people angry that a young black man with is hands up was shot and killed by a white officer of the almost totally segregated police force in an overwhelmingly black community. The area, was a vestige of the Jim Crow South and resented the press and especially the outside press.