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- Associated Press via Yahoo! NewsSEATTLE (AP) — Felix Vargas read the Justice Department's report on Ferguson, Missouri, and thought some of it sounded awfully familiar: a mostly white police department overseeing a mostly minority town; questionable uses of force; officers ill-equipped to deal with mentally ill residents.
- Chicago TribuneA Justice Department report says black people in Ferguson, Missouri, are disproportionately subject to excessive police force, baseless traffic stops and citations for infractions as petty as walking down the middle of street.
- Los Angeles TimesOfficials in Ferguson, Mo., were meeting Tuesday with Justice Department representatives to discuss their investigation of the police department connected to the shooting last summer of Michael Brown, an unarmed black 18-year-old, by a white police officer, according to a city spokesman.
- CNBCThe Justice Department is pushing some of the biggest banks on Wall Street to plead guilty to charges that they manipulated foreign currency prices.
- Los Angeles TimesThe Justice Department weighed in Friday on the alleged misuse of detention in local jails, an issue that has become a focus for criminal justice reformers
- KOMO SeattleFelix Vargas, chairman of a Hispanic organization in the Washington city of Pasco, says there's a problem in his community and others in the U.S.
- WCVB BostonThe Justice Department formally closed its investigation of Ferguson Police officer Darren Wilson, declining to bring criminal charges for the killing of Michael Brown.
- Los Angeles TimesThe Justice Department's conclusion that the city of Ferguson, Mo., routinely violates the constitutional rights of African Americans validates the claims of racial injustice long made by black residents of that small Midwestern city but also by activists nationwide, especially since the...
- Los Angeles TimesThe Justice Department has found that the Ferguson, Mo., Police Department, at the center of national tension over perceived racial bias in policing, routinely discriminated against blacks, according to a law enforcement official familiar with the findings.
- Los Angeles TimesThe Justice Department said Tuesday that it was closing its investigation into the shooting death three years ago of Florida teenager Trayvon Martin without filing criminal charges against former neighborhood watch volunteer George Zimmerman.
- Los Angeles TimesAfter months of investigation, the Justice Department report on the shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo., last year largely sides with the much-maligned St. Louis County grand jury that declined to charge police Officer Darren Wilson.
- Denver PostWASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department won't prosecute a former Ferguson, Missouri, police officer in the shooting death of an unarmed black 18-year-old, but in a scathing report released Wednesday faulted the city and its law enforcement for racial bias.
- Washington PostThe Justice Department's scathing report decried the behavior of the police force. It also offered a look at what lies ahead for the city.
- Denver PostThe Justice Department cleared a white former Ferguson, Mo., police officer in the fatal shooting of an unarmed black 18-year-old Wednesday but also issued a scathing report calling for sweeping changes in city law enforcement practices it called discriminatory and unconstitutional.
- KOLR - KSFX OzarksWASHINGTON (CNN) The Justice Department formally closed its investigation of Ferguson Police officer Darren Wilson, declining to bring criminal charges for the killing of Michael Brown. In a report released Wednesday, prosecutors said that "Wilson's actions do not constitute prosecutable violations" of federal civil rights law. "There is no evidence upon which prosecutors can rely to disprove ...
- Minneapolis-St. Paul Star TribuneWASHINGTON — The Justice Department on Wednesday cleared a white former Ferguson, Missouri, police officer in the fatal shooting of an unarmed black 18-year-old, but also issued a scathing report calling for sweeping changes in city law enforcement practices it called discriminatory and unconstitutional.
- KPLR 11 St. LouisWASHINGTON — The Justice Department formally closed its investigation of Ferguson Police officer Darren Wilson, declining to bring criminal charges for the killing of Michael Brown. In a report released Wednesday, prosecutors said that “Wilson’s actions do not constitute prosecutable violations” of federal civil rights law. “There is no evidence upon which prosecutors can rely […]
- Chicago TribuneThe Justice Department says it won't prosecute former Ferguson, Missouri, police officer Darren Wilson in the shooting death of an unarmed black 18-year-old that led to weeks of protests.
- FOX 59 IndianapolisEvan Perez and Wes Bruer CNN WASHINGTON (CNN – March 4, 2015) — The Justice Department formally closed its investigation of Ferguson Police officer Darren Wilson, declining to bring criminal charges for the killing of Michael Brown. In a report released Wednesday, prosecutors said that “Wilson’s actions do not constitute prosecutable violations” of federal civil […]
- FOX 6 MilwaukeeWASHINGTON (CNN) — The Justice Department formally closed its investigation of Ferguson Police officer Darren Wilson, declining to bring criminal charges for the killing of Michael Brown. In a report released Wednesday, prosecutors said that “Wilson’s actions do not constitute prosecutable violations” of federal civil rights law. “There is no evidence upon which prosecutors can […]






