Discrimination in Ferguson: full extent of police bias laid bare in damning report

[gore0bsessed]

• Police department and court system ‘reflect and exacerbate existing racial bias’
• Investigators outline 26 recommendations to reform Ferguson’s policing
  

The full extent of the racial persecution of black residents in Ferguson, Missouri, by the city’s overwhelmingly white law enforcement authorities was disclosed on Wednesday in a damning report by the US Department of Justice.

Unveiling the report at a press conference in Washington, the US attorney general, Eric Holder, blamed Ferguson police for creating a “toxic environment, defined by mistrust and resentment” that had been set off “like a powder keg” by a white officer shooting dead an unarmed black 18-year-old.

“It is time for Ferguson’s leaders to take immediate, wholesale and structural corrective action,” said Holder. “Let me be clear: the United States Department of Justice reserves all its rights and abilities to force compliance and implement basic change. Nothing is off the table.”

Discrimination in Ferguson: full extent of police bias laid bare in damning report | US news | The Guardian

 

[Retired_Can_Soldier]

On a positive note the Officer who was the victim of a government and media witch hunt has been completely exonerated.

 

[B00Mer]

On a positive note the Officer who was the victim of a government and media witch hunt has been completely exonerated.

Yeah, but unfortunately the Media, Holder and Obama convicted the guy before he even had a trial. Hopefully the Officer can now move on with his life.

 

[DaSleeper]

And yet he refused to investigate Black panther voter intimidation...some could easily call him a racist.. non?

 

[gore0bsessed]

is there ever a basis in reality in anything you believe? next you're going to start talking about how black panthers helped vote
obama into office by intimidating voters..

 

[DaSleeper]

You have a reading comprehension problem!
Your imagination sees words that aren't there...

 

[damngrumpy]

The irony is they found one guy who was not guilty supposedly in a nest
full of vipers and instead of seeing the larger problem people focus on
the one person. He was exonerated by who's standards? If it was in the
town of Ferguson its suspect. If it was from outside an objective view it
is another matter. I have no doubt there is a problem there as a community.
The problem is a two way street though and ways have to be found to fix
it not merely spend time blaming each other for it.