100 at Amherst Rally for Michael Brown

On August 16 in Amherst, more than 100 people attended a rally to call for accountability for the white policeman who shot and killed Michael Brown, an unarmed, 18-year-old African American in Missouri one week earlier. Witnesses say Brown was standing with his hands raised above his head when Ferguson, Missouri police officer Darren Wilson shot and killed him.

The Amherst rally was organized by the Amherst chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). The...