What has been happening in Ferguson, Missouri is deeply disturbing and all of us have a responsibility to speak out.

Last Saturday, Ferguson police shot and killed a young, unarmed, black man named Michael Brown. Eyewitnesses say that Brown had his hands in the air, declared he didn't have a gun and pleaded "stop shooting." But the police officer who killed Brown has not been arrested.

The Ferguson police department released the name of the officer who shot Brown, and with the release of a private autopsy showing he shot him six times, it's time for an arrest to be made. The photos from protests in Ferguson are shocking--tear gas fired at children and even journalists arrested for simply reporting on the scene. How many more protestors must be hurt or jailed before authorities hold Brown's killer accountable?

Hundreds of unarmed black men have been killed by the police in this country during the last decade alone. It must stop. And it won't stop until cops like the one who shot Michael Brown are held accountable. That's why none of us can afford to stay quiet at this critical moment in our history.