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Judi Lynn

(160,217 posts)
Tue Mar 3, 2015, 04:09 PM Mar 2015

Officials: US report finds racial bias in Ferguson police

Source: Associated Press

Officials: US report finds racial bias in Ferguson police
By ERIC TUCKER, Associated Press | March 3, 2015 | Updated: March 3, 2015 2:05pm

WASHINGTON (AP) — A Justice Department investigation will allege sweeping patterns of discrimination within the Ferguson, Missouri, police department and at the municipal jail and court, law enforcement officials familiar with the report said Tuesday.

The report, which could be released as soon as Wednesday, will charge that police disproportionately use excessive force against blacks and that black drivers are stopped and searched far more often than white motorists, even though they're less likely to be carrying contraband.

The Justice Department also found that blacks were 68 percent less likely than others to have their cases dismissed by a municipal court judge, and that from April to September of last year, 95 percent of people kept at the city jail for more than two days were black, according to the officials. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak on the record before the report is made public.

The Justice Department began the civil rights investigation following the August shooting of Michael Brown, an unarmed black 18-year-old, by a white police officer. That killing set off weeks of protests.




Read more: http://www.chron.com/news/politics/article/Ferguson-officials-to-meet-with-Justice-Department-6112111.php

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Officials: US report finds racial bias in Ferguson police (Original Post) Judi Lynn Mar 2015 OP
I'm shocked! Shocked I tell you! sakabatou Mar 2015 #1
Just wait . . . OldRedneck Mar 2015 #2
Another bunch of racist exposed. herding cats Mar 2015 #3
I picture a black guy in Ferguson telling a cop he's never been arrested.... Spitfire of ATJ Mar 2015 #4
And the white majority in St. Louis County... freebrew Mar 2015 #5
the primary purpose of police is to raise $$ for government, which is used to pay THEMSELVES, it is msongs Mar 2015 #6
No duh. romanic Mar 2015 #7
 

OldRedneck

(1,397 posts)
2. Just wait . . .
Tue Mar 3, 2015, 04:16 PM
Mar 2015

The rightwingnut-o-sphere will go berserk over this report, blaming the whole thing on Eric Holder.

herding cats

(19,549 posts)
3. Another bunch of racist exposed.
Tue Mar 3, 2015, 04:20 PM
Mar 2015
Among the findings of the report was a racially tinged 2008 message in a municipal email account stating that President Barack Obama would not be president for very long because "what black man holds a steady job for four years."



Looks like he held that job long enough for their racist ways to be brought out into the light.
 

Spitfire of ATJ

(32,723 posts)
4. I picture a black guy in Ferguson telling a cop he's never been arrested....
Tue Mar 3, 2015, 04:27 PM
Mar 2015

And the cop thinking, "How did we miss one?"

freebrew

(1,917 posts)
5. And the white majority in St. Louis County...
Tue Mar 3, 2015, 04:36 PM
Mar 2015

will just figure the report is racially biased against THEM.

msongs

(67,193 posts)
6. the primary purpose of police is to raise $$ for government, which is used to pay THEMSELVES, it is
Tue Mar 3, 2015, 05:24 PM
Mar 2015

an extortion racket

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