After the wide strings of protests over the lethal shooting of an unarmed black teenager in Missouri, the Justice Department will form a massive civil rights investigation into the Ferguson Police Department.
As per Fox News, a government executive directed on the planned investigation stated that the Department of Justice's civil rights division would be at the helm of the inquiry. Referred as a pattern and practice investigation, the probe will center on the Ferguson Police Department's policies.
US Attorney General Eric Holder declared on Thursday that there will be a massive investigation into the Ferguson Police Department over the fatal shooting of Michael Brown by one of its white officers last month.
The investigation was triggered by the violent protests and will reconnoiter the probability of systematic violation of federal rights by a small police force over a period of years, which fought to hold more than two weeks of violence that follow the shooting of 18-year old Michael Brown.
The US Department of Justice is currently conducting a separate and narrower civil rights probe into the killing of Michael Brown, who was shot six times succeeding a confrontation with Officer Darren Wilson of the Ferguson Police Department on August 9. A grand jury is considered to indict the officer for the shooting.
At the wake of the protests over Michael Brown's shooting, Ferguson Police Department Chief Thomas Jackson acknowledged at a media conference that the Ferguson community is at odds with its police force. The Department of Justice's civil rights division routinely reconnoiters individual police departments when there are accusations of systemic use of force violations, racial prejudice or other glitches.
After meeting with the Justice Department's executives on Wednesday, Ferguson Mayor James Knowles said that he welcomed the federal investigation. The mayor vehemently defended the Ferguson Police Department officers during the catastrophe sparked by Michael Brown's shooting.
Ferguson's Democratic committee woman, Patricia Bynes said that she was overjoyed about the inquiry. She said that there are some profoundly rooted, entrenched issues with the law enforcement in the area and the probe is a step in the right direction of fixing the crisis. However, she mistrusted that the mayor and the Ferguson Police Department officers will redeem the faith of many alienated residents after the shooting incident.
The prime lawyer for Brown's family, Benjamin Crump said on Thursday that they were invigorated by the attorney general's verdict. Specialists and residents are hopeful that the massive investigation on the Ferguson Police Department shooting will conclude the violent protests and will set remedies that the police force would agree to follow.
