Source: The Washington Post / Getty Michael Brown's death at the hands of police officers in Ferguson, Missouri, set the nation ablaze both literally and figuratively. Protests, public demonstrations, marches on highways, and volatile outrage broke out in several cities, but especially in St. Louis, which is only 12 miles from the scene of the incident. The day Brown was killed, he was walking to the store with his friend Dorian Johnson. According to KSDK, the 33-year-old was shot approximately 1,000 feet from where Brown took his final breath.