U.S. Says Ferguson Police Routinely Violated Civil Rights
Protestors against the Grand Jury's decision not to indict Police Officer Darren Wilson at West Country Center Mall near Ferguson on Nov. 28, 2014
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Police in Ferguson, Missouri, routinely targeted black residents for questioning, search and arrest, the Justice Department concluded, though there’s not enough evidence to bring civil-rights charges against the officer who killed an unarmed teenager.
The department’s practices, and those of the municipal court, violated the rights of citizens in the predominantly black St. Louis suburb, according to a Justice Department report. The racial disparities “existed in nearly every aspect of Ferguson police and court operations,” the report said.