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Justice Dept. Moving to Clear Ferguson Officer of Civil Rights Charges
NYT ^ | JAN. 21, 2015 | By MATT APUZZO and MICHAEL S. SCHMIDT

Posted on 01/21/2015 1:28:18 PM PST by Red Badger

WASHINGTON — The Justice Department has begun work on a legal memo recommending no civil rights charges against a white police officer in Ferguson, Mo., who killed an unarmed black teenager in August, law enforcement officials said.

That would close the politically charged case in the shooting death of 18-year-old Michael Brown. The investigation by the F.B.I., which is complete, found no evidence to support civil rights charges against the officer, Darren Wilson, the officials said.

A broader civil rights investigation into allegations of discriminatory traffic stops and excessive force by the Ferguson Police Department remains open, however. That investigation could lead to significant changes at the department, which is overwhelmingly white despite serving a city that is mostly black.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; Politics/Elections; US: Missouri
KEYWORDS: darrenwilson; democrats; doj; ferguson; holder; michaelbrown; obama; police; protests
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To: digger48

Wonder if ex-officer Wilson could find a bottom feeder er- hungry lawyer- who’d take his defamation case?


41 posted on 01/21/2015 2:51:17 PM PST by Mac in AZ
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To: Red Badger

Dass raciss.

42 posted on 01/21/2015 3:18:12 PM PST by Dr. Thorne ("Don't be afraid. Just believe." - Mark 5:36)
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To: Red Badger
That investigation could lead to significant changes at the department, which is overwhelmingly white despite serving a city that is mostly black.

If I recall correctly, felons, former gang members, and people who cannot speak, read, and write common English, are not likely to be hired into the law enforcement career field.

43 posted on 01/21/2015 3:26:30 PM PST by Sergio (An object at rest cannot be stopped! - The Evil Midnight Bomber What Bombs at Midnight)
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To: Sergio
If I recall correctly, felons, former gang members, and people who cannot speak, read, and write common English, are not likely to be hired into the law enforcement career field.

While in the past, that was true. Now , in the age of quotas, Affirmative Action, etal. I would not bet the farm that this is true now. If one is the correct color, the correct sexual orientation, the correct religion that is all that is needed. If one is the correct color, sexual orientation, religion, that is all that is required.

44 posted on 01/21/2015 3:34:57 PM PST by sport
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To: Red Badger

This news should have been released yesterday morning before Bronco Bama’s SOTU speech. But we all know why it wasn’t.


45 posted on 01/21/2015 3:38:14 PM PST by Liberty Valance (Keep a simple manner for a happy life :o)
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To: Red Badger; Liz; sickoflibs
The investigation by the F.B.I., which is complete, found no evidence to support civil rights charges against the officer, Darren Wilson, the officials said.

Good for the FBI...

46 posted on 01/21/2015 4:43:27 PM PST by GOPJ (Radical Muslims are the brutish "light-fearing Morlocks' of the Islamic political duality)
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To: sport

Sad, but true. Let’s face it, you gotta find some way of creating a police force that will do what they are told, no matter what.


47 posted on 01/21/2015 4:53:41 PM PST by Sergio (An object at rest cannot be stopped! - The Evil Midnight Bomber What Bombs at Midnight)
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To: Red Badger

Thank you massah Holder.


48 posted on 01/21/2015 6:25:39 PM PST by Minutemen ("It's a Religion of Peace")
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To: Norm Lenhart

Could be to bring-on more rioting.


49 posted on 01/21/2015 6:28:59 PM PST by Minutemen ("It's a Religion of Peace")
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To: Minutemen

Never let a crisis go to waste. Get brown people innocently rioting killed by racist whites defending their families and property and it’s win/win for libs. Less brown people to drain lib profits and a scapegoat to blame it on.

Yes, they are that evil.


50 posted on 01/21/2015 6:35:14 PM PST by Norm Lenhart
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To: Sergio

Except in DC and Chicago...............


51 posted on 01/22/2015 6:14:39 AM PST by Red Badger (If you compromise with evil, you just get more evil..........................)
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To: Norm Lenhart

That would be my guess.


52 posted on 01/22/2015 7:27:10 AM PST by stephenjohnbanker (My Batting Average( 1,000) (GOPe is that easy to read))
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To: Norm Lenhart

” Yes, they are that evil.”

Oh well, they did manage to destroy Wilsons life, and livelihood. All was not lost......


53 posted on 01/22/2015 7:31:03 AM PST by stephenjohnbanker (My Batting Average( 1,000) (GOPe is that easy to read))
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To: Red Badger
That investigation could lead to significant changes at the department, which is overwhelmingly white despite serving a city that is mostly black.

Ferguson was primarily white in the recent past. Does that mean when white neighborhoods are busted white city employees must lose their jobs?

And when there's white gentrification dost that mean blacks can be fired for being too large a part of city government? Holder needs to come up from under the rock and tell us if this works both ways.

54 posted on 01/22/2015 8:13:31 AM PST by GOPJ (Radical Muslims are the brutish "light-fearing Morlocks' of the Islamic political duality)
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