#FergusonFiasco, Part 3: After the DOJ Report: A Reader

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#FergusonFiasco, Part 3: After the DOJ Report: A Reader 2015-04-29T19:16:43-05:00 Guest Contributor

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On March 4, 2015, the Department of Justice issued two reports that focused on the events that centered on the killing of Michael Brown by then Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson. The first one determined the evidence did not support that Wilson violated federal law in killing Michael Brown. The second one, “revealed a pattern or practice of unlawful conduct within the Ferguson Police Department” that violated the “First, Fourth, and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution, and federal statutory law.” Here at R3, we started the first Reader on the Ferguson Fiasco by examining the killing of Michael Brown. The second Reader focused on material in response to the Grand Jury’s decision not to indict. The third Reader focuses on material in response to the DOJ’s reports. Read our collection of Readers here.

1. A City Where Policing, Discrimination and Raising Revenue Went Hand in Hand
2. Conservatives Who Hate Big Government Are, Surprisingly, Not Up In Arms About Ferguson
3. Ferguson’s Conspiracy Against Black Citizens
4. Attorney General Holder Eric Holder on Ferguson, Missouri Investigation
5. It’s Not Just Ferguson
6. The Ferguson emails show how little race and racism have changed in the Obama era
7. White House Reporters Focusing On The Wrong Email Scandal
8. Ferguson’s True Criminals
9. Darren Wilson Is Cleared of Rights Violations in Ferguson Shooting
10. The Gangsters of Ferguson
11. DOJ report on Ferguson reads like the description of a totalitarian police state
12. Ferguson judge behind aggressive fines policy owes $170,000 in unpaid taxes
13. Ferguson police one of many law enforcement agencies facing federal reforms
14. Can the Ferguson Police Department Be Fixed?
15. Stunning Ferguson report revelations: Why a complete overhaul is needed, now
16. How to Rebuild the Ferguson Police Department
17. The Ferguson Nightmare
18. The Ferguson e-mails show how little race and racism have changed in the Obama era
19. Introducing the Justice Issue
20. Blame Sharpton For Ferguson If You Wish–But Don’t Pretend Rights Of Blacks Were Not Shredded By Cops
21. The Road from Selma to Ferguson
22. How Racism Became Policy in Ferguson
23. The Injustice the DOJ Uncovered in Ferguson Wasn’t Racism
24. Comparing Selma To Ferguson: ‘Mike Brown Is Our Jimmie Lee Jackson’
25. Ferguson Became Symbol, but Bias Knows No Border
26. Racism in Ferguson PD is policing done right, and that’s why it is so wrong
27. Walking in Ferguson: If you’re black, it’s often against the law
28. Colin Powell ‘shocked but not that surprised’ by Ferguson report
29. The Ferguson Report Was Damning, But It’s Not Just A Ferguson Problem
30. ‘Madison, Wisconsin, Is Not Ferguson, Missouri’
31. From Selma to Ferguson: How Far? Not Far Enough
32. Grading Obama On Race, After Ferguson And Selma Anniversary
33. Selma and Ferguson
34. Ferguson Is America and the Time to Act Is Now
35. Progress After Ferguson? Good Ideas Need Good Implementation
36. Racial Tension Draws Parallels, But Madison Is No Ferguson
37. From Ferguson to Charleston: The race for racial justice
38. America’s “black body” reality: How Selma, “Scandal” & Ferguson reveal an ugly truth
39. Ferguson’s Police Chief Resigned, Now Fire the Rest of the Cops
40. America’s inability to respect the full humanity of black life
41. How municipalities in St. Louis County, Mo., profit from poverty
42. Everything You Need To Know About What’s Happened In Ferguson
43. On the Front Lines in Ferguson
44. What next for Black Lives Matter in Ferguson after city’s police shooting?
45. Race, outrage and white male excuses: It’s much worse than just one frat boy
46. Nine solutions to fix Ferguson
47. West Florissant today: Ferguson streetscape redrawn by tension and grief
48. Not just bird chirping: Black Lives Matter chants will resound this spring

49. ‘Ferguson protests: lack of justice at the very fabric of US society’
50. Ferguson home values are plummeting, and residents are feeling the pain
51. Ferguson: A story about race told in black and white
52. Flash Point Ferguson
53. Conservatives Start to Take the Ferguson DOJ Report Seriously
54. The Lesson From Ferguson: Riots Work
55. Post-Race Rhetoric in Contemporary American Politics
56. Who Exactly Is Accused Ferguson Police Shooter Jeffrey Williams?

57. Who’s being attacked in Ferguson?
58. Race relations take big step backward in Ferguson
59. What Are The Ferguson Shootings Really About?
60. ‘Hands up, don’t shoot’ was built on a lie
61. The Ferguson DOJ report looks a lot like other excessive police force reports
62. Stop poisoning the race debate: How “respectability politics” rears its ugly head — again
63. Why Black Lives Matter activists aren’t winning over whites
64. John Oliver slams for-profit policing in Ferguson and across the country
65. Reconsidering My August Post on Ferguson and ‘Conflicting Accounts’
66. When Ferguson hits primetime: How shows like ‘Scandal’ handle race
67. If Ferguson Stays Ferguson, Blacks Have No One to Blame But Themselves
68. Next Steps on the Ferguson Front
69. The Black Lives Matter Movement Doesn’t Need Perfect Symbols
70. Fleece Force: How Police And Courts Around Ferguson Bully Residents And Collect Millions
71. Last Week Tonight with John Oliver: Municipal Violations (HBO)
72. “CAN FERGUSON REBUILD?”: FERGUSON ELECTIONS EXPECTED TO HAVE HIGH VOTER TURNOUT
73. The rise of Black Lives Matter Minneapolis
74. Missouri Police Will Restrict Tear Gas After Ferguson Lawsuit
75. Teaching About Policing and Race in America
76. Ferguson mayor says it’s not fair Justice Department report focused on race
77. New Nonprofit, Incubate Ferguson, Aims to Empower the City’s Residents

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