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Fill the city's coffers. jackson of course oversaw all of this on top of the initial reaction to a wave of violence that gripped ferguson after one of his police officers shot and killed michael brown last summer. let's get right to cnn's sara sidner. these new details breaking over the past hour. do we know right now what led jackson to make this decision and did he in fact resign already? >> reporter: i am told that he has resigned. we have not seen the paperwork yet. we have not seen the physical proof. but i asked has he resigned and is it effective immediately. in other words, is he sayin...

Today, sae admitting that song and its viral lyrics have been chanted and taught at the fraternity for years. the money lead. catchy tune but a court now saying robin thicke and pharrell stole it from marvin gay and it's going to cost them a pretty penny. but will music lovers everywhere end up being the ones who pay an even greater price? oh, mercy, mercy me. good afternoon. i'm jake tapper. breaking news in our national lead. the ferguson police chief, thomas jackson, has stepped down. this comes a day after the city's manager removed himself from office and a week after the department o...

Michael jackson borrowed from james brown. justin timberlake borrowed from all of them. if you read the biography of marvin gay, "divided soul," marvin gay says he was inspired by the 1976 hit "disco lady" by johnny taylor and writing his song "got to give it up." everybody is influenced by somebody else. the question is is it theft, do you cross the line or is it just love an homage to someone, past heroes. there are a lot of questions in the music industry that this verdict maybe goes too far and perhaps will intimidate artists in the future from borrowing from people they really love. >> th...

That area. that happened in fact to the former force where darren wilson used to be a police officer, right? >> in jennings that's correct, right next door. walking distance from ferguson. that did happen. you will see the st. louis county police that are now patrolling that city. so it is not unprecedented and there has been a political push, by the way, to bring all these very small departments under one big umbrella. that's been going on for a long time. it's called the better together initiative. so there is some political maneuvering going on behind the scenes behind long before there was...