On August 9, 2014, in Ferguson, Missouri, 18-year-old Michael Brown was shot and killed following a confrontation with Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson. Brown had been walking with a friend, Dorian Johnson, when they were stopped for walking in the middle of the street and an altercation occurred at the officer’s vehicle. Accounts of what happened next differ: Officer Wilson said Brown assaulted him in the police car and tried to take his firearm, prompting Wilson to fire; witnesses including Johnson said the officer initiated the confrontation and that Brown was surrendering with his hands in the air when he was shot. Brown was struck by at least six bullets and his body remained in the street for hours afterward.

The shooting sparked immediate and sustained protests in Ferguson and nationwide, and helped propel the phrase Hands up, don’t shoot and the Black Lives Matter movement into wider public attention. A St. Louis County grand jury in November 2014 declined to indict Officer Wilson. In March 2015 the U.S. Department of Justice announced it would not prosecute Wilson for civil rights violations, while a separate DOJ investigation found a pattern of racial bias within the Ferguson Police Department.

Did anyone who was in Ferguson that day notice details about the stop, the location, or the movements of the people involved that haven’t been widely shared?