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June 3, 2020 02:24 pm GMT
Original Link: https://boingboing.net/2020/06/03/ferguson-missouri-elected-its.html
Ferguson, Missouri elected its first black mayor who is also the first female mayor
Yesterday, Ella Jones became the first black, and first female, elected mayor of Ferguson, Missouri where an uprising kicked off in 2014 after a white police officer shot and killed Michael Brown, an unarmed black teenager, and was not indicted. From the New York Times:Ms. Jones, 65, and her opponent, Heather Robinett, 49, had both vowed to continue changes enacted after the 2014 shooting of Mr. Brown, including a federal consent decree, a legally binding agreement requiring reforms to a police department.
Ive got work to do because when youre an African-American woman, they require more of you than they require of my counterpart, Ms. Jones said after her victory, in a video (below) posted online Tuesday night by the journalist Jason Rosenbaum of St. Louis Public Radio. I know the people in Ferguson are ready to stabilize their community, and were going to work together to get it done.
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