May 12, 1967 was the morning that Benjamin Brown, a young truck driver from Jackson, Mississippi, breathed his last.
Benjamin Brown was leaving the Kon-Tiki restaurant on 1017 J.R Lynch Street the night of May 11.
According to the Jackson City Council’s 1995 resolution, Brown was there to pick up a sandwich for his wife and wasn’t involved in the ongoing protest.
When the police opened fire on the group, Brown fled where he was shot in the back of the head, back, and leg.
It wouldn’t be until 1995 when Jackson’s city council found that a police officer, who had died by that point, was responsible for Benjamin Brown’s death.
