FERGUSON, Mo. (AP) – Ferguson voters have elected Ella Jones as the city’s
first black mayor as protests over police treatment of black communities roil
the nation. Jones is a city council member and also will be first woman to lead
the St. Louis suburb. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that she beat a fellow
council member in a non-partisan election for a three-year term that starts
later this month. Incumbent James Knowles III could not run again due to term
limits. Protests following the 2014 fatal police shooting of 18-year-old Michael
Brown thrust Ferguson into the national spotlight over issues of race and
policing that remain the focus of protests following the death of George Floyd
in Minneapolis last week.
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