Before Kaepernick Took a Knee: Ferguson's NFL Protests

On November 30, 2014, an estimated fifty protesters chanted “We are Mike Brown!” outside the St. Louis Edward Jones Dome stadium. It was the fourth Rams game protest of the 2014 season. Tanks, military personnel, and police in riot gear surrounded the protesters, and soon made multiple aggressive arrests. The Rams protest capped off a week of store “shu…