The U.S. Justice Department has concluded that the Ferguson, Missouri, police department routinely engages in racially biased practices, a law enforcement official familiar with the department's findings said on Tuesday. The investigation into the police department began in August after the shooting of unarmed African-American teen Michael Brown by a white police officer in Ferguson sparked national protests. Analysis of more than 35,000 pages of police records found racist comments from officers as well as statistics that showed African-Americans make up 93 percent of arrests while accounting for only 67 percent of the population in Ferguson, the official said. Scroll down for videoA message in a municipal email account said Obama wouldn't be president for very long because 'what black man holds a steady job for four years'The DOJ report will allege sweeping patterns of discrimination targeting African-Americans within police and municipal courtAttorney General Eric Holder is expected to present report WednesdayFrom April to September, 95 per cent of people kept at the city jail for more than two days were blackReport will show that 88 per cent of people against whom police used excessive force were African-Americans
'I'm not comfortable that _ announced that there would be wholesale changes before he started collecting any evidence,'' Knowles said.