ACTIVISM AWARD
WORDS: CLIFF JOANNOU // PHOTOGRAPHS: CAMERON MCNEE
On 9 August 2014, unarmed black teenager Mike Brown was shot and killed by white police officer Darren Wilson, following reports of a robbery at a convenience store in Ferguson, Missouri. Decades of frustration at the excessive police aggression faced by people of colour in the USA erupted into riots across the county. This would be the beginning of the #BlackLivesMatter movement.