‘It Hurts Me So Much’: A Dispatch From Ferguson
913 views · Published 5 December 2014 · 5:24 · Indexed 25 October 2026
Channel: The Nation · 2014 · News & Politics
Walter Rice has lived for most of his life in Ferguson, Missouri, but he has never seen anything in his community like the passion and anger that he’s experienced these past few months. Ever since Mike Brown’s death at the hands of Darren Wilson in August, the city’s protests have spurred a national conversation about race, inequality and police brutality that has been long overdue. Throughout it all, Rice has held a steady vigil in front of the Ferguson Police Department with a steel drum to show that he, like so many in Ferguson, won’t allow this injustice to quietly continue. The 75-year-old Vietnam veteran knows that if major changes aren’t made in how this country’s authorities—from law enforcement to politicians—treat the people they serve, “you will have chaos in your town.” A Film by FS Productions www.fsproductions.org Produced and Edited by Whitney Green Videography by Derek Hammeke Music: "Did You Feel It" by Dexter Britain
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