Posted on 09/03/2014 5:15:44 PM PDT by mandaladon
Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. will launch this week a broad civil rights investigation into the Ferguson, Mo., Police Department, according to two federal law enforcement officials.
The investigation, which could be announced as early as Thursday afternoon, will be conducted by the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division and follow a process similar to that used to investigate other police departments across the country, the officials said.
The announcement follows the shooting last month of Michael Brown, an 18-year-old African American, by a white Ferguson police officer, who claimed he acted in self-defense. Brown, who was unarmed, was shot at least six times on the afternoon of Aug. 9.
Holder’s decision will represent the Obama administration’s most aggressive step to address the Ferguson shooting, which set off days of often-violent clashes between police and demonstrators in the streets of the St. Louis suburb.
The federal officials said the probe will look at not only Ferguson, but other police departments in St. Louis County. Some, like Ferguson, are predominantly white departments serving majority African-American communities. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss a pending investigation.
The investigation is in addition to a Justice Department probe into whether Officer Darren Wilson, who fired the fatal shots, violated Brown’s civil rights. The new probe will look more broadly at whether the department employed policies and practices that resulted in a pattern of civil rights violations.
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Hyphenated BS. Sick of this anti-Americanism, and that's exactly what this is.
How many qualified Black applicants were there — not just applicant, but QUALIFIED applicant.
Notice that he still hasn’t indicted Mr. Zimmerman?
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Yep and Yep.
Racist bastid said he would pursue federal Civil Right Charges, but what happened?
Nothing. Nada. Zip. Zero.
Hah! And St. Swisher is even more more guilty than St. Skittles. And Officer Wilson is way more innocent - had a more valid reason to shoot - than Zimmerman.
All Holder is doing here is pandering to “his people”.
The question is how many black applicants in the Ferguson PD. And ask WHY as well.
Why should a black officer take a job in Ferguson when - by the color of his skin - he can take a better paying job - over more qualified white applicants - in a better suburb?
True. . .true. . .
The more of these statements that,at the end of the day,prove to be true and accurate,the more likely it is that this was a justified shooting.
Got that,Mt Holder????
Agree.African American,European American,Asian American...all BS.There are Americans and non Americans.
who didn’t see this coming ?
Fixed it for you.
I can tell you from personal experience that it is extremely difficult to find young black men and women who want to be police officers and you have to want it.
Qualified? Here is the problem in that area. Many of the black applicants who do get through the academy go to work in less than stellar agencies with poor policies and supervision. They don’t get trained properly and get themselves in trouble. Some were trouble before the ever entered the academy.
Well, when they have effed up enough they get passed to another municipality, usually one that is even worse. This goes on until they hit rock bottom, forced completely out or get indicted.
Not all the agencies in the area run so poorly and some are either accredited through CALEA or the state. But those agencies are mostly white police officers in majority black neighborhoods.
There is a growing movement afoot to force those agencies to either drop the standards to hire enough black officers (quality to take a back seat to equality) to reflect the racial makeup of the community or force those white officers to move into those communities. This will cause many of those officers to resign rather than live in neighborhoods with above average crime, no amenities and failing school systems.
All of this is further compounded by police academies who cannot or will not do the same level of background check on prospective recruits as a police department will. So there are recruits who are coming out of the police academy all the time who should have never been admitted in the first place. This has caused a glut in the market which helps feed the constant revolving door in the poorly run and led agencies.
It’s a nightmare and been going on for decades. And don’t even get me started on pay disparity....
The correct title would be “Ferguson Police Dept to investigate the Just Us Dept.”
Has Attorney General and Black Man Eric Holder released the results of the Zimmerman investigation?
More like fan the coals.
Can’t have things calming down now.
Not until after November 4th, anyhow.
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