Ferguson Now Has the Most Powerful Street Art in America

Ferguson Now Has the Most Powerful Street Art in America
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By now, you've heard what happened in Ferguson. The nation watched with shock Aug. 9 as the police shooting of an unarmed 18-year-old morphed into a law enforcement crackdown, tear gas canisters sailing through the air and rubber bullets hammering the bodies of protesting residents.

For more than a week, the city of 21,000 became occupied territory. Now it waits anxiously as a grand jury decides whether to indict Officer Darren Wilson in Michael Brown's death.

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