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By midnight on Wednesday, this call-and-response, among others like it — “Hands up, don’t shoot,” “What’s their name? Mike Brown,” in addition to old standby, “No justice, no comfort!” — was in fact taking place all day. an early-evening thunderstorm and the relaxed but firm interventions of local clergy assisted make this perhaps probably the most calm evening since Ferguson police Darren Wilson shot and killed 18-year-old Michael Brown 11 times early in the day.