article_snippet: Police in Ferguson are racially-biased and fuelled tensions in the city for years before Michael Brown was shot dead, a report by Justice Department will reveal.
article_snippet: A racist joke circulated via email among police officers will also be featured in a report by the Justice Department, A racist joke circulated via email among police officers is claimed.
article_snippet: Condemned: A Justice Department report will accuse Ferguson police of disproportionately targeting black people .
article_snippet: , A Justice Department report will say.
article_snippet: Outgoing Attorney General Eric Holder focused the report on relations between police and citizens .
article_snippet: Investigators will not seek to label Ferguson police as racially motivated but will look to see if the fatal events in August last year were avoidable.
article_snippet: The report's authors, including outgoing Attorney General Eric Holder, have spent around six months analyzing the use of force in Missouri prisons, and the interaction between police and civilians in Ferguson.
highlights_snippet: Justice Department report due to be released later this week .
  
highlights_snippet: Will find some white officials targeted black people in Ferguson, Missouri .
  
highlights_snippet: Will also feature a racist joke circulated by officers via email .
  