The shooting of Michael Brown – an unarmed 18-year-old African-American man who was shot to death by a police officer in Ferguson, Missouri – has unleashed a wave of protests in Ferguson that have turned violent at times, as well as a forceful response by local police. Fifty-nine percent of Americans – including 67 percent of whites but just 43 percent of blacks – think the protesters’ actions have gone too far, according to a new CBS News/New York Times poll. CONT.
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