As tensions in Ferguson, Missouri appear to be easing, a
new poll shows that Americans across the country are divided along racial lines on the justification of the fatal police shooting of unarmed black teen Michael Brown.
More than half — 57% — of black Americans said the killing of the 18-year-old Brown by Ferguson Police Officer
Darren Wilson on Aug. 9 was “not justified,” according to a
New York Times/CBS News poll published Thursday. Eighteen percent of white Americans said the shooting was not justified.