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Bob Collins

1,000 Words: The hug

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It happened yesterday in beleaguered Ferguson, Missouri.

APTOPIX Police Shooting Missouri Protests
A woman who identified herself as Dragonfly, from the Brooklyn borough of New York, gets a hug from Ferguson, Mo., police Sgt. Michael Wood, after sharing her fear of police brutality with Wood, during a protest at the police station, Monday, Oct. 13, 2014, in Ferguson, Mo. Activists planned a day of civil disobedience to protest the shooting of Michael Brown, in August, and a second police shooting in St. Louis last week. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)

Jelani Cobb, who writes about race for the New Yorker, tells the story behind the photo via Twitter.

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