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Justice Dept. review finds pattern of racial bias among Ferguson police
Washington Post ^ | March 3, 2015 | By Sari Horowitz

Posted on 03/03/2015 3:46:55 PM PST by Brad from Tennessee

The Justice Department will issue findings Wednesday that accuse the police department in Ferguson, Mo., of racial bias and routinely violating the constitutional rights of black citizens by stopping drivers without reasonable suspicion, making arrests without probable cause and using excessive force, officials said.

Federal officials opened their civil rights investigation into the Ferguson police department after the uproar in the St. Louis suburb and across the country over the fatal shooting in August of Michael Brown, an unarmed black teenager, by Darren Wilson, a white Ferguson police officer. A grand jury in St. Louis declined to indict Wilson in November.

Federal officials will not bring civil rights charges against Wilson, but they see their broad civil rights investigation into the troubled Ferguson police department as the way to force significant changes in Ferguson policing. . .

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...


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From article: "Justice Department officials found that although African Americans make up 67 percent of the population in Ferguson, they accounted for 93 percent of all arrests between 2012 and 2014."

These numbers are meaningless because nationwide blacks committ a disproportionate number of crimes.

1 posted on 03/03/2015 3:46:55 PM PST by Brad from Tennessee
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To: Brad from Tennessee

VOTERS....
NOT ONLY DO WE NEED A NEW PARTY IN CONTROL IN THE WHITE HOUSE.

WE NEED TO CLEAN UP THIS DEPT. OF JUSTICE AND STATE DEPT...THEY ARE BOTH OUT OF CONTROL AND ARE CONTROLLED BY BIASED INDIVIDUALS THAT ARE NOT WORKING FOR AMERICA...

PRAY FOR AMERICA AND THE FUTURE OF THIS NATION.


2 posted on 03/03/2015 3:50:22 PM PST by haircutter
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To: Brad from Tennessee
Fudge all you want, DOJ. People know the truth about crime statistics and the black demographic. AND statistics concerning blacks 'resisting arrest' versus other races.
3 posted on 03/03/2015 3:53:55 PM PST by CivilWarBrewing
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To: Brad from Tennessee

Arrest more white people!


4 posted on 03/03/2015 3:54:35 PM PST by Raycpa
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To: haircutter

Have the Republicans confirmed Loretta ‘Eric Holder’ Lynch yet?


5 posted on 03/03/2015 3:54:40 PM PST by CivilWarBrewing
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To: Brad from Tennessee

If they want to find it, they will.

Doesn’t mean it really exists.


6 posted on 03/03/2015 3:57:23 PM PST by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
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To: Brad from Tennessee

Like the Just-us dept has any respect anymore.

Shove it, Holderdork.

You and the rest of your corrupt clan O’cretins.

May the next 9-11 attack miss us.

And hit you.


7 posted on 03/03/2015 3:57:27 PM PST by Da Coyote
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To: CivilWarBrewing
I AM A REPUBLICAN...........

That said..I am not pleased with this Congress that I had so hoped would clean up the problems we have been faced with. I trust NO professional politician...we need term limits and age limits...

there are people serving that are in a stage of old age dementia and should be throw out with the dirty water they bath in...

I'm sick of this House Speaker, collecting outlandish income and working hand in hand with this EVIL POTUS...ENOUGH ALREADY...VOTERS BETTER WAKE UP BY THE NEXT PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION, OR WE WILL HAVE NO AMERICA WE REMEMBER.

8 posted on 03/03/2015 4:03:08 PM PST by haircutter
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To: Brad from Tennessee

Maybe blacks need to stop doing so much dumb s*it.


9 posted on 03/03/2015 4:03:49 PM PST by VanDeKoik
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To: Brad from Tennessee
Which is cause and which is effect?
If the place was infested by skinheads, then a "bias" against young bald white males would surely follow.

10 posted on 03/03/2015 4:05:11 PM PST by BitWielder1 (Corporate Profits are better than Government Waste)
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11 posted on 03/03/2015 4:06:08 PM PST by RedMDer (Keep Free Republic Alive with YOUR Donations!)
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Hate speech. A November 2008 e-mail, for instance, stated that President Obama could not be president for very long because “what black man holds a steady job for four years.”

Hot damn! We hillbillies
can sue everyone in the land!

Thank you, race grievance industry and Dept of Just Us demagogues!

12 posted on 03/03/2015 4:06:23 PM PST by WilliamofCarmichael (If modern America's Man on Horseback is out there, Get on the damn horse already!)
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To: Raycpa

“Arrest more white people!”

How? Ferguson is about 70% black.


13 posted on 03/03/2015 4:07:19 PM PST by TexasGator
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To: Brad from Tennessee

The DOJ has a pattern of racial bias against white cops.


14 posted on 03/03/2015 4:20:28 PM PST by lightman (O Lord, save Thy people and bless Thine inheritance, giving to Thy Church vict'ry o'er Her enemies.)
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To: Brad from Tennessee

All racism charges come down to a totally indefensible numbers game.


15 posted on 03/03/2015 4:32:07 PM PST by 1010RD (First, Do No Harm)
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To: Brad from Tennessee

A “review” done by Holder’s “peeps”. Umm. I’m not buying it.


16 posted on 03/03/2015 4:48:03 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer (Illegal aliens are far superior to Americans. - So say the 'RATS and RINOs.)
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To: Brad from Tennessee

Just wait for the next census. By 2020, African Americans should make up 100 percent of the population in Ferguson, and still account for 93 percent of all arrests.


17 posted on 03/03/2015 4:48:48 PM PST by Sooth2222 ("In a democracy people get the leaders they deserve." - Joseph de Maistre, 1753-1821)
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To: Brad from Tennessee

Color me surprised .... did anyone expect anything else from Eric the Corrupt and his gang of Just-Us thugs?


18 posted on 03/03/2015 5:05:05 PM PST by RetiredTexasVet (Truth is treason in the Empire of lies. - Ron Paul)
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To: Brad from Tennessee

but they can’t find Lois Lerner’s emails?


19 posted on 03/03/2015 5:19:20 PM PST by Brown Deer (Pray for 0bama. Psalm 109:8)
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To: Brad from Tennessee

If they looked I bet they would find a criminal behavior bias among races that correlates perfectly with the observed “bias”


20 posted on 03/03/2015 5:20:40 PM PST by LambSlave
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