Posted on 09/03/2014 7:25:58 PM PDT by markomalley
The U.S. Department of Justice will conduct a civil-rights investigation of the Ferguson, Mo., police department, not looking further into the shooting of Michael Brown, who was killed by a Ferguson police officer earlier this summer, but at the department’s pattern of conduct over the years.
Federal law-enforcement officers have already been in the area for weeks to conduct a civil-rights investigation of the Brown, which would determine whether the federal government will bring civil-rights charges. Former DOJ civil-rights attorney Robert Driscoll has explained on NRO why a civil-rights prosecution in the Brown case is unlikely — it’s quite possible a broad investigation of the Ferguson PD might be the most the Justice Department does in the wake of the Brown shooting.
The Washington Post, which broke the news, explains that the broader probe “will be conducted by the Justice Department’s civil rights division and follow a process similar to that used to investigate complaints of profiling and the use of excessive force in other police departments across the country.”
The investigation will also look at other departments in the county that contains Ferguson, St. Louis County. At least one department, officials said, invited the DOJ to look at its practices.
The federal Department of Justice has pursued more such investigations of local police departments under the Obama administration and Attorney General Eric Holder than it had in prior years, with at least 34 such departments undergoing such investigations right now. The probes cite a 1994 federal law passed in the wake of the beating of Rodney King by the Los Angeles Police Department, which empowers the DOJ to look into departments to see whether they have a pattern of violating citizens’ constitutional rights or rights under federal civil-rights law.
One such investigation concluded in April, with Holder’s Justice Department releasing a critical report about excessive use of force by the Albuquerque, N.M., police department, which led to an agreement about reforms the department would implement.
Several Ferguson cops have been involved in recent lawsuits brought by private citizens about individual civil-rights violations (some regarding incidents at other departments). Those suits make “a variety of allegations, including killing a mentally ill man with a Taser, pistol-whipping a child, choking and hog-tying a child and beating a man who was later charged with destroying city property because his blood spilled on officers’ clothes,” according to the Washington Post, which reported on them recently.
Message to ghetto blacks: Riot some more. We have your back....
Federal harassment of a white police officer. Massive fishing expedition. They need to state which crime the police chief is accused of.
This action tells me that they have a weak case against the policeman who did the shooting.
Who’s going to investigate the Justus Department for THEIR pattern of Civil-Rights Violations?
Lots of property damage done when the ferals went wilding.
Maybe the property owners that were looted and damaged should file a lawsuit against Holder for lack of attention to crimes committed, eh?
Just more tyranny and intimidation from the black racists in DC.
Now that the Feds are investigating ST. Louis county,not just the city of Ferguson, this looks like pay back for voters dumping Dooley as County Executive.
http://stlouis.cbslocal.com/tag/st-louis-county-executive-race/
likely outcome will be quotas for police forces as dictated by the feds. I can’t see why white police officers would want to stay in Ferguson anyway.
(hopefully) first order of business for the upcoming republican senate, impeach eric holder.
FR: Never Accept the Premise of Your Opponent’s Argument
The problem with the PC, vote-winning term "civil rights" is that the only rights that Congress has the legislative power to protect are those which the states amended to the Constitution which the states applied to themselves when they ratified the 14th Amendment as evidenced by the following excerpt.
“3. The right of suffrage was not necessarily one of the privileges or immunities of citizenship before the adoption of the Fourteenth Amendment, and that amendment does not add to these privileges and immunities. It simply furnishes additional guaranty for the protection of such as the citizen already had [emphasis added].” —Minor v. Happersett, 1874.
And the only constitutionally express race-protected right is voting rights evidenced by the 15th Amendment. So I don't see from the Constitution where the feds get the power to investigate possible police brutality in the name of so-called federal civil rights laws.
Again, corrupt federal bureaucrats are probably trying to win votes.
Otherwise, what am I overllooking?
What a dog and pony show...the Eastern Missouri AUSA’s office and St. Louis Division of the FBI have a pretty good handle on the rogue cops in the area and prosecute hell out of them whenever possible.
I know it doesn’t seem like it but Ferguson is actually a nice town with some pockets of butthole people. It’s agency is fairly modern, about in the middle of salary and bennies and you will learn the ropes about being a cop for certain.
They just lost touch with folks.
Speaking from experience....the DoJ will lie and make up stuff and statistics and force a consent decree upon fergesun.
They will blackmail them with withdrawl of federal funds.
Move on, nothin to see.
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Right. Think about how badly they must want to stoke this fire. If they had anything he would already have been frogmarched in front of the press.
Eric Holder is black. Barack obama is black. The thug killed in the act of attempted murder is black. It is all about black and blackness. it is pure racism
There must be an appearance of investigation to save face in the world of wacko blackness
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