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TIME followed a teenager trying to let his voice be heard, as residents of Ferguson, Mo. turned out to protest peacefully on Thursday.
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00:00This is what we're doing out here, man, it's crazy out here, though.
00:27I feel like they should keep protesting until it's over with, and if we don't get justice then, that's just what's going to happen, man, we're going to be out here every day, so something's going to happen.
00:57Come on, now, let's keep walking.
01:04I saw Trayvon Martin, I saw George Zimmerman get away with it, now it's another case, now if this police get away with it, now, I'm telling y'all, man, this ain't Florida, this is St. Louis, Missouri.
01:16Come on, brother.
01:24Good talking about my art, bruh.
01:26He was so young, man. He was finna go to college. Like, what if that was me, man? Like, I'm 14, I'm just not going to school and stuff. Like, what if that was me finna go to college?
01:44Like, what if that was me, man? Like, I'm 14, I'm just not going to school and stuff. Like, what if that was me finna go to college? Like, and then the only person in my family? And then I die right before the day of school starts.
02:02He was 18, he was two young to die. What is that, though? I don't know what that is. That's them. I wrote 50.
02:19Let me ask you something. If it don't make a point, then why do it?
02:24They put this on there. I'm trying to scrape it off so I can write on it.
02:27Well, see, that's what I'm saying. Why put it on there and you go get a piece of paper and put it on there?
02:32Wait. Mike Mike made a statement in time now. You know what I'm saying? And we got to keep his memory alive by not defacing property.
02:44And this is what they want y'all to do. This is defacing property. Look at this. This don't even say nothing no more.
02:53Can't nobody really see it. When the rain comes, it can be washed away. But this right here will never be washed away.
03:01All these people out here will never be washed away. But I bet you get out there in the middle of the street.
03:07They're going to see you because your age. It's all about, it's just like fighting with your mind. Fight with a pen or a paper or a marker. You know what I'm saying?
03:20Make it bigger in every way so they can see it. All right.
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03:54No more murder, bro. This is how we all got to unite, bro. All of us, all of us African-American,
04:03this is what we all go through to tonight. This is what lead us to, man. Everybody holding
04:09hands, everybody showing love, everybody sitting here supporting us, supporting what's going
04:13on right now, man. This is what we got to do to get respect. And what's so crazy about
04:18the, don't nobody hear us until we do shit, until we do stuff like this. Like, from the
04:25riot, everybody breaking stuff. Didn't nobody, didn't nobody trip off that until everybody
04:29started breaking into stuff. It was all on BET, CNN. They wasn't worrying about the Michael
04:35Brown death. You got bigger and better, bigger and other things to worry about than people
04:39breaking into these, to these stories. I understand what they did was wrong, but you got to realize
04:44if the law wouldn't sit there and shoot this man like that, we wouldn't go through none
04:49of this. The stories wouldn't get broken, too. Footlover wouldn't get broken, too. This
04:54won't get burnt down if it wasn't for them.
05:14Footlover couldn't get broken, too. This Youtuber came over cotton, too, and the
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