Justice Reform in the U.S. Should Start With Probation

The day after Missouri Governor Jay Nixon switched up the police presence in Ferguson, the scene looks much transformed. Ron Johnson, above, captain with the Missouri Highway Patrol, led protesters in a peaceful march last night—the same protesters on whom St. Louis County Police Department officers trained rifles the day before.

But in other ways, it's the same-old same-old. At a press conference today, police handed out information linking Michael Brown—the unarmed 18-year-old shot dead by six-year Ferguson police veteran Darren Wilson—to a shoplifting incident. Information handed out at the press conference focused exclusively on the alleged robbery, skipping over the circumstances that led to Brown's shooting, reports The Washington Post's Wesley Lowery.