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Demonstrating grotesque views and images of african-americans in which they were seen as the other called transient by public officials and characterized as lacking personal responsibility. now i want to emphasize that all of these examples statistics and conclusions are drawn directly from the exhaustive findings report that the department of justice has now released. clearly these findings and others included in the report demonstrate that although some community perception of michael brown s tragedy death might not have been accurate the widespread conditions that these perceptions were based upon and the climate that gave rise to them were all too real. some of those protesters were right. this is a reality that our investigators repeatedly encountered in their interviews of city and police officials and conversations with local residents and the review of thousands of pages of records and documents. this evidence pointed to an unfortunate and unsustainable ....
Issued today was a hammer blow for the police department and what you ll see d.o.j. do now is go meet with the police department and see these are our demands. we expect every one of these to be implemented and a federal monitor to be apointed to oversee them and appointed and to oversee them and report back to d.o.j. probably by a court and if you are not prepared to agree, we ll see you in court and we feel very strong in our case based on the evidence wee rolled we rolled out today. and trymaine lee, this is a very powerful report. and the attorney general didn t just confine it to ferguson and he said this is not confined to any state or geographic region and we ve been talking about this action and relationships with police are fairly common and things happening from coast to coast that we ve talked about throughout our lives and our grandfather s lives but when he ....
Headed out of the door and saying he will target civil right and in this speech he is wrapping it up and the folks saying who think they saw what they say might have been wrong but they were blinded by this overwhelming truth. and not might have been wrong, abby the report that we are looking at today said they were wrong and the evidence didn t support the view that wilson committed a crime there. and attorney general eric molder made that clear. strong speech from the attorney general. and matt what stood out to me was the investigation came out because of the conversation had across the country. the protests and the pleas from folks and emotional pleas for change. just a reminder of the powerful of the voice and the power the individuals have here and the question all of us have walking away from that is will this investigation lead to any change here? it will certainly lead to change in ferguson. and it is a reminder that d.o.j. under this administration has opened more of th ....
So the kind of practices, discriminatory practices that were outlined in this report that has been issued today will be changed in the future. and the second thing i think he wants to do is assure the community of ferguson there will be real change. he wants to kind of prevent the unrest that we saw last summer and the way to do that is by demonstrating a firm solid investigation into this matter and there will be change that matters to people s lives going forward. tremain, you spend time on the ground in ferguson and you have been in touch with folks there today after the release of the report. what is the reaction there to the finding of a pattern of racial bias at the ferguson police department? i ve spent the last hour and a half speaking to about a dozen residents, activists and elected officials and they are saying we ve been saying this. on the one hand it seemed validated by the department of justice report and while they ....
Vigilant in its execution and determined in the pursuit of justice in every kay case and in every circumstance and in every community across the united states of america. thank you. [ applause ] . you ve been listening to attorney general eric holder speaking about the conclusion of two investigations into the ferguson police department. the attorney general speaking over about 20 minutes detailing remarks and it boiled down to this people were wrong, the attorney general said in their judgment of officer darren wilson in the shooting death of michael brown but write in the critical opinion of the police department. and joining us matt when the rubber hits the road, is when the attorney general said all options on the table and he didn t outline what comes next. as a former aide explain what he could do including potentially suing the ferguson police department? i think the report that ....