article_snippet: Ferguson, Missouri (CNN)Ferguson's police chief and other city officials are already out.
article_snippet: The five "initiated recall (attempt) due to Mayor James Knowles failure to adequately rein in an out-of-control police department during the protests following teenager Michael Brown death," A group supporting the filing, Organization for Black Struggle, a 35-year-old St. Louis-based activist group said.
article_snippet: Earlier this week, the police chief and the city manager resigned in the wake of a U.S. Justice Department report alleging institutionalized racism at just about every level of Ferguson's municipal government, including the police department.
article_snippet: The top municipal court clerk was fired earlier in connection with racist emails.
article_snippet: This month's Justice Department report was initiated after one of Ferguson's police officers, Darren Wilson, shot and killed African-American teen Michael Brown in August, a shooting that spurred months of protests.
article_snippet: Wilson, a white officer who said he shot teenager Michael Brown in self-defense, will not be charged in the case -- a grand jury declared it wouldn't indict he in November, and Justice Department said This month that it would not bring federal civil rights charges in the case.
article_snippet: Wilson resigned from Justice Department in November, citing security concerns.
article_snippet: Knowles indicated Friday Wilson won't be stepping down.
article_snippet: If we lose Mayor Knowles, we lose a force for change, and it will be harder to make the changes that the DOJ (Department of Justice) is asking for," Ashby said.
article_snippet: Rasheen Aldridge, a black member of a commission charged with recommending reforms in Ferguson, said  that Knowles needed to resign in the wake of the DOJ report.
article_snippet: Ferguson knew what was going on during Ferguson watch," said Aldridge, a member of the Ferguson Commission, which Gov. Jay Nixon formed last year.
highlights_snippet: Group says Mayor failed to rein in police during protests after Michael Brown's 2014 death .
  