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READ: DOJ Report on Civil Rights Violations in Ferguson, Criminal Probe of Officer Darren Wilson

Web ExclusiveMarch 04, 2015

Read the reports issued today by the U.S. Department of Justice that find a “pattern and practice” of civil rights violations in Ferguson, Missouri, and decline to bring criminal charges against Officer Darren Wilson for shooting unarmed African-American Michael Brown.

Click here to watch our interview about the DOJ findings with Michelle Alexander, author of “The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness.”

DOJ Investigation of the Ferguson Police Department


DOJ Criminal Investigation of Officer Darren Wilson

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