“What would happen if we organized thousands, even hundreds of thousands, of people charged with crimes to refuse to play the game, to refuse to plea out? What if they all insisted on their Sixth Amendment right to trial? Couldn’t we bring the whole system to a halt just like that?”

Videographer Heather De Mian, who live-streams events in Ferguson, was thrown out of her wheelchair by police and arrested as people gathered to commemorate six months since Mike Brown's death.