article_snippet: (CNN)Racist emails -- like one that depicted President Obama as a chimpanzee -- resulted in three Ferguson, Missouri, city employees resigning or being fired, city spokesman said Friday.
article_snippet: William Mudd resigned Thursday over the emails discovered during the U.S. Department of Justice investigation of racial prejudice in the city's police and judicial system, city spokesman Jeff Small said on Friday, citing the city attorney.
article_snippet: the city's top court clerk, Mary Ann Twitty, was fired earlier this week in connection with racist emails, city spokesman Jeff Small said.
article_snippet: Several employees forwarded racist emails but until now none had been disciplined, the report said.
article_snippet: In a Friday interview with CNN's Sara Sidner, Ferguson Mayor James Knowles said Police Chief Thomas Jackson was not copied on any of racist emails.
highlights_snippet: 2 Ferguson police officers resign over racist emails, city spokesman says .
  
highlights_snippet: Earlier this week, the city's top court clerk was fired over racist emails, spokesman says .