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Better Because You Were There

Velvet Chainsaw

This was shortly after the killings of Trayvon Martin in Sanford, Florida, in 2012, and Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, in 2014. Following those shootings, a number of association conferences pulled out of — or dropped from their consideration — nearby Orlando and St. Louis as meeting destinations.

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Ferguson Suits Target Police Records, Crowd Control

Associations Now

Arguing that authorities in the St. Louis suburb haven’t been forthcoming with public records and evidence about last week’s fatal police shooting of an unarmed black teen, the National Bar Association is suing to gain access. “We want to ensure the family of Michael Brown and the residents of St.