culture that discriminated and targeted african-americans. these e-mails, these outrageous e-mails, you know it was very troubling when you have this cesspool of racism and you think it doesn t affect how officers act. so the family is trying like everybody else to say let s try to prevent this from happening again. let s try to make this better so our children won t be killed by the people who are supposed to protect and serve them. i just want to be precise. the city manager is now resigned the police chief has resigned, two police officers, they are out. the court clerk is out. do you want mayor knowles in or out? well like i said the family wants actions to be taken to try to prevent this from happening. they saw that the people who sent those e-mails and people who were doing this excessive
let s get the latest from suzanne malveaux. reporter: we re learning is jackson s resignation is effective march 19th a week from today. there will be a nationwide search to find his replacement. many in the african-american community have been calling for his ousting. they believe that this is the first step in trying to rebuild trust with the police department. ferguson s police chief thomas jackson is stepping down. this in the wake of the justice department s scathing report that found a pattern in practice of discrimination against african-americans by the ferguson police. state senator maria nadel says it s the only way the community can begin to heal. he no longer has that ability to guide people in the right direction, because he has never been a true leader. reporter: calls for his ousting erupted after the city
weeks and months have asked for it to dissolve. the police chief wanted to prevent that from happening and this is a move on his part i think to try and make sure the department stays in place. this is a movement from the city to try to change things and try to look at the doj report and try to start taking some actions. will this be enough? we will have to wait and see. they are not releasing details of the severance payment that he s getting. it says he will receive a severance payment and health insurance for one year. we don t know if that one year s salary is that his severance payment? we don t know what the severance payment is, is that right? reporter: that s correct. that s correct. they don t say anything about a pension, long-term pension or anything like that. these are good questions i presume reporters will be asking at that live news conference. we will have live coverage of it coming up here in the situation room as well. you want to make one more point? repor
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chief. they want to wait and see. that s understandable isn t it? yeah i think so. at best the doj report provides some hope of transformations to come. the removing of these few individuals, so far i think we have five individual who is have been removed in ferguson is a small step but really we want to see transformations of the systems that have been allowed to exist for too long. that s what the doj report outlines. the systems in place, not just individual actions. i hope the mayor acknowledges there are systems in place in ferguson and beyond that prey on african-americans and prey or poor people. this isn t just the lone action offense a few individuals. you re the president ceo of the naacp. you don t believe it s an isolated incident. there s other examples of this kind of stuff happening all over