“Michael Brown didn’t die in the dark. He was eighteen years old, walking down a street in Ferguson, Missouri, from his apartment to his grandmother’s, at 2:15 on a bright Saturday afternoon. He was, for a young man, exactly where he should be.” In The New Yorker, Amy Davidson asks: Why did Michael Brown die in Ferguson?

+ Dorian Johnson witnessed the shooting. So why haven’t the police spoken to him?

+ Vox provides an excellent overview of this developing story.