Michael Brown

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FILE - In this Aug. 25, 2014, file photo, Dorian Johnson leaves church at the end of the funeral service for his friend, Michael Brown, in St. Louis. A federal appeals court on Tuesday, July 25, 2017, upheld a judge's refusal to throw out a lawsuit against Ferguson by the Johnson who was with Brown when a police officer shot Brown to death three years ago, calling the officer's use of force unreasonable. Johnson argues that as he walked with Brown on a Ferguson street, Darren Wilson illegally detained him by using his police vehicle to block their path. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson, File)

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In this Tuesday, June 13, 2017, photo, Dallas Street Choir member Michael Brown raises his voice during a rehearsal for their performance at Carnegie Hall on Wednesday evening, at the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church in New York. "We may be homeless, but we're not voiceless," he said at the rehearsal Tuesday, "so let's use our effort to remind people that we still have hope and it will never die." (AP Photo/Kathy Willens)

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Police wait to advance after tear gas was used to disperse a crowd during a protest for Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, Aug. 17. The 18-year-old black man was fatally shot by a white officer, Darren Wilson. A grand jury declined to indict Wilson, and the U.S. Justice Department opted against civil rights charges. Wilson later resigned. Brown's death led to months protests and became a catalyst for the Black Lives Matter movement. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel) ** FILE **

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This May 2016 photo provided by Michael Brown shows Sebastian Bull, his wife Amy Bull, and their children Camden and Brady Bull, posing in the Pioneer Cabin tunnel tree, a giant sequoia that had a tunnel carved into it in the 1880s, during a visit to Calaveras Big Trees State Park near Arnold, Calif. The tree was toppled over by a massive storm Sunday, Jan. 8, 2017. Four generations of Brown’s family have spent countless hours at the tree and often took out-of-town visitors there, some from as far away as Turkey. (Michael Brown via AP)

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In this May 2015 photo provided by Michael Brown, John and Lesley Ripper pose in the Pioneer Cabin tunnel tree, a giant, centuries-old sequoia that had a tunnel carved into it in the 1880s, during a visit to Calaveras Big Trees State Park near Arnold, Calif., in the Sierra Nevada. The tree came crashing down on Sunday, Jan. 8, 2017, during a massive storm. “I was blown away,” said John Ripper, a 55-year-old printer in Northville, Michigan. “I’ve traveled to 70 countries, But that particular tree and being able to walk underneath it and touch it was quite a memorable moment and something I won’t soon forget.” (Michael Brown via AP)

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In this May 2015 photo provided by Michael Brown, John and Lesley Ripper pose in the Pioneer Cabin tunnel tree, a giant, centuries-old sequoia that had a tunnel carved into it in the 1880s, during a visit to Calaveras Big Trees State Park near Arnold, Calif., in the Sierra Nevada. The tree came crashing down on Sunday, Jan. 8, 2017, as a massive storm system stretching from California into Nevada swept through the area over the weekend. Park volunteer Joan Allday said the tree had been weakening and leaning severely to one side for several years. (Michael Brown via AP)

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FILE - In this Aug. 21, 2014 file photo, Nikki Jones, of Spanish Lake, Mo, holds a button in support of Michael Brown while visiting the community in the apartment development near where he was fatally shot in Ferguson, Mo. Brown's death "opened the eyes of the world" to concerns about law enforcement's treatment of black people, Brown's father said Tuesday, Aug. 9, 2016, during a memorial service marking the two-year anniversary of the shooting. (Curtis Compton/Atlanta Journal-Constitution via AP, File)

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Police departments across the country are facing a crisis in confidence following high-profile deadly use-of-force cases, starting especially with the fatal shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri. (Associated Press)

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Ferguson, Missouri, was a community on edge again Monday, a day after a protest marking the anniversary of Michael Brown's death was punctuated with gunshots. (Associated Press)

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Family, friends and supporters pause for a moment of silence at a memorial to Michael Brown, Sunday, Aug. 9, 2015, in Ferguson, Mo. Sunday marks one year since Michael Brown was shot and killed by Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson)

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In this Aug. 15, 2014, file photo, then-Ferguson Police Chief Thomas Jackson releases the name of the the officer accused of fatally shooting Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson, File)

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Demonstrators rally outside outside the Minneapolis Police Department's Third Precinct to protest police brutality on Nov. 25, 2014, in Minneapolis, following the previous day's announcement that a grand jury has decided not to indict Ferguson, Mo., police officer Darren Wilson in the shooting death of unarmed, black 18-year-old Michael Brown. (Associated Press) **FILE**

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Volunteers remove items left at a makeshift memorial for Michael Brown Wednesday, May 20, 2015, in Ferguson, Mo. The memorial that has marked the place where Brown was fatally shot by a police officer in August has been removed and will be replaced with a permanent plaque, Ferguson's Mayor James Knowles said Wednesday. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson)

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Michael Brown Sr., holds up a photo of himself, at right, his son, Michael Brown, top left, and a young child during a news conference Monday, Aug. 11, 2014, in Jennings, Mo. Michael Brown, 18, was shot and killed in a confrontation with police in the St. Louis suburb of Ferguson, Mo, on Saturday, Aug. 9, 2014.(AP Photo/Jeff Roberson)

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"Ferguson," A play based entirely on Grand Jury testimony surrounding the shooting death of Michael Brown, debuts in Washington on Wednesday. (Phelim McAleer)

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Grand juries decided not to indict officers in the chokehold death of Eric Garner in New York and the fatal shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, leading to protests. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)

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Police officers watch protesters as smoke fills the streets in Ferguson, Mo., after a grand jury's decision in the fatal shooting of Michael Brown, in this Nov. 25, 2014, file photo. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel, File)

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Many police departments are saying it is a mistake to agree to the states setting up independent review boards to evaluate police misconduct, such as the case of the shooting death of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, last summer. (Associated Press)

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The St. Louis County Police Department is appealing for the public's help after releasing nearly 200 photos of alleged looters on the night a grand jury decided not to indict the police officer who fatally shot Michael Brown. (KTVI)

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Singer and social activist Harry Belafonte Jr. (center) worked with organizations that established the "Heads Up Coalition," funded by George Soros' Tides Foundation, based on later-debunked notions that Michael Brown's hands were up before being shot. (associated press)