Source: Huffington Post | Carol Kuruvilla
Clergy members were at the front lines in Ferguson during mass protests on Monday that rocked a city still haunted by the fatal police shooting of unarmed black teenager Michael Brown.
Christian, Jewish, and Muslim clergy from around the country were among the first of more than 50 people arrested for disturbing the peace after staging a planned act of civil disobedience outside Ferguson’s police headquarters, the AP reports.
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“It’s not just about admitting wrongdoing but also committing to making changes that prevent further harm from being done, and there has not even been any admitting of wrongdoing yet by any of the powers that be in Ferguson,” the Rev. Jim Wallis, one of those arrested, told RNS.