“Conservatives should be able to point out that what Ferguson was doing was wrong, whether their policies had anything to do with race or not.”
Actually, it’s not clear that the police were doing anything wrong. The DOJ report failed to take into consideration the ages of those picked on by the cops. While the arrest rates were higher for blacks, those rates didn’t take into account that whites in the town are, on average much older than black residents, due to demographic shifts over the last couple of decades. Older people, of all races but especially whites, are much less likely to get into trouble, while young blacks are much more likely to do so.
Did you read the article? French was not referring to racial issues but to the police being turned into collection agencies for a government using its less powerful citizens as an ATM.
That’s pretty much my point. Liberals cannot see anything wrong in government action unless they can somehow tie it to race.