Racial Bias In Ferguson, And Beyond (Tom Ashbrook, On Point)

If you wondered last summer why Ferguson, Missouri blew up so fast and hard after the killing of Michael Brown, yesterday the Department of Justice had one answer for you. This, said Attorney General Eric Holder and a big DOJ report, was a town under a racist police force. Emailing starkly racist jokes – the President as a chimpanzee. Stopping and arresting African-American citizens at a far higher rate than whites. Using force and dogs and poverty in a way that trapped people – jailed people – to fill city coffers. This hour On Point: the Ferguson report, and what comes now.
Interview:
http://onpoint.wbur.org/2015/03/05/ferguson-police-racial-bias-doj-michael-brown