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Lawsuit for failed Polizeirefom in Ferguson
After the violent death of the Afroamerikaners Michael Brown in 2014, should the police be reformed. But the city in the U.S. state of Missouri to block the Plan. Now she gets legal pressure from Washington.
The U.S. Department of justice has filed a lawsuit against the town of Ferguson announced, after the death of black youth Michael Brown is a police and judicial reform will be denied. “I am deeply disappointed,” said U.S. justice Loretta Lynch. The city Council of Ferguson in the US state of Missouri have, on Tuesday night after 26 weeks of “painstaking negotiations” 131 pages long paper about the necessary reforms with reference to the costs and unanimously rejected, ” said the Minister of justice.
U.S. justice Loretta Lynch
The population of Ferguson’s have spent almost a year on the implementation of the government-agreed reforms is maintained, said Lynch: “you should no longer have to wait”. The city Council of 21.000 inhabitants, a suburb of St. Louis got the decision in the awareness that this is a suit for will. The observance of the Constitution should not “cost”, was indignant Lynch.
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In the now-rejected paper means, among other things, the city pledged to the activities of the police and the judiciary on the “public safety” rather than on “revenue generation” to focus on. The killing of 18-year-old Black Michael Brown by a white police officer in August 2014 had over Ferguson, sometimes violent protests and a nationwide debate about racism is raised. The responsible police officer was not indicted, although Brown unarmed. The then Minister of justice, Eric Holder, had the city accused the security forces to use their income to increase, instead of order and had a preliminary investigation against Ferguson initiated. The police of the city had after the serious riots promised, its System of internal accountability of officials for their actions and improve the training for the reduction of prejudice offer.
bri/sti (dpa, afp)