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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More like fan the coals.
Hmmm... Americans getting beheaded by ISIS, and Obama and Company are worried that Saint Swisher Sweets can’t beat up a police officer.
Translation: The grand jury will not indict Officer Darren Wilson.
Probe? —
Be still my heart.
Ferguson Popos need to investigate the DoJustUs.
Must not have anything else to do.
Who’s going to investigate the JUSTICE DEPARTMENT? There is some real “low hanging fruit” in that bunch of criminals.
“Translation: The grand jury will not indict Officer Darren Wilson.”
But a federal grand jury will.
Holder and the rest of the JustUs department are still stinging over St.Skittles. They will not be denied their pound of flesh.
Racist witch hunt from a racist and corrupt “Just-Us” Department.
How many blacks have been turned down for employment as Leo’s by the Ferguson PD?
States need to probe Heinrich Holder for sedition and arrest the SOB.
The states own more military hardware than the fascist federal government.
Eric Holder is such an awful person. There has never been a more racist Attorneys General at the federal level as him.
He is using the office to attack any white person who defends himself against a black person.
I think I’ll send a letter to Banki Moonshine and tell him to have his boys probe the U.S. Dept. of Justus. There’s too much racism and bigotry against honkies coming out of that joint.
Notice that he still hasn’t indicted Mr. Zimmerman?
I would argue it will likely be a proforma investigation to drag out the nothingness till it is dissapated
Of course, they got nothing.
But the official position is “we’re still investigating” ... got to save face with da Black Community
Holder is bound and determined to not let Ferguson turn into another Travon Martin. Officer Wilson MUST be judged guilty of murder.
Somewhere between Saturn and Neptune?
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