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CPOY 69 Domestic Picture Story Award of Excellence: Unease

While national and international news media focused on the increasingly dangerous nighttime protests and looting in Ferguson, Mo., during the day, people from the area and around the country gathered in acts of civil disobedience in protest of the police killing of unarmed teenager Michael Brown. Despite the apparent safety of the daytime gatherings, large numbers of protestors, angry over police treatment and racial divides in the area, caused concern for police as tension was palpable. Even as protestors grew tired from over a week of nightly marches, the relatively quiet of Ferguson during the day hinted at the chaotic nights.

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August 16, 2014
Drummers and dancers gather outside the burnt-out hulk of the QuikTrip gas station that served as a staging ground for protestors in Ferguson, Mo. The QT, as it was locally known, felt victim to looting and was destroyed during protests over local police's shooting of unarmed black teenager Michael Brown. Eventually the QT's parking lot was closed as it was deemed to be a staging ground for unsafe nightly protests.
Mark Kauzlarich / University of Missouri
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