article_snippet: President Obama today said the investigation into police in Ferguson, Missouri, has exposed a 'broken and racially biased system' as President Obama prepared to mark a half-century since 'Bloody Sunday'.
article_snippet: Addressing a South Carolina town hall, President Obama also said the inquiry - launched in the wake of Michael Brown's 2014 death - has revealed an 'oppressive and abusive' police situation. '
article_snippet: Justice Department's damning report on blacks-targeted racial bias in the St Louis suburb.
article_snippet: President Obama has said the inquiry into police in Ferguson, MissouriMissouri, has exposed a 'broken and racially biased system' as President Obama prepared to mark a half-century since 'Bloody Sunday' Controversy: Addressing a South Carolina town hall,
article_snippet: the 53-year-old also said the investigation - launched in the wake of Michael Brown's death - has revealed an 'oppressive and abusive' police situation (file picture) Commemoration: President Obama's comments at South Carolina's Benedict College come the day before Michael Brown's leads this weekend's 50th anniversary of 'Bloody Sunday', when police beat scores of people (pictured) who were marching from Selma, Alabama, to Montgomery, the state capital, to protest against their lack of voting rights . '
article_snippet: Are their going to enter into some sort of agreement with the Justice Department to fix what is clearly a broken and racially biased system?'
article_snippet: President Obama's comments at South Carolina's Benedict College come the day before Michael Brown's leads this weekend's 50th anniversary of 'Bloody Sunday', when police beat scores of people (pictured) who were marching from Selma, Alabama, to Montgomery, the state capital, to protest against their lack of voting rightsMontgomery, the state capitalMontgomery, the state capital .
article_snippet: During today's gathering, President Obama made President Obama most expansive comments yet about the the Justice Department report, which found systemic racial bias  created a 'toxic environment' in Michael Brown's.
article_snippet: the Justice Department report, which found systemic racial bias   cleared Darren Wilson, the white former Michael Brown's police officer who shot to death 18-year-old Brown, who was black and unarmed, while he was on duty in the city in August 2014.
article_snippet: However, in a separate report, federal investigators found patterns of racial profiling, bigotry and profit-driven law enforcement and court practices within the Ferguson Police Department.
article_snippet: Shockingly, President Obama was the subject of some of the racist emails from Michael Brown's police and municipal courts employees that were uncovered in the investigation.
article_snippet: Official duty: President Obama was the subject of some of the racist emails from Michael Brown's police and municipal courts employees that were uncovered in the investigation and reported on this week .
article_snippet: President Obama called for communities to work together to address tensions between police and locals without succumbing to cynical attitudes that say 'this is never going to change, because everybody's racist.'
article_snippet: In a radio interview broadcast earlier today, President Obama said improving civil rights and liberties with police is an area that 'requires collective action and mobilization'.
article_snippet: President Obama also spoke again of the Justice Department report, which hit the headlines this week after finding police officers routinely discriminated against blacks in Michael Brown's by using excessive force.
article_snippet: President Obama explained: 'I think that there are circumstances in which trust between communities and law enforcement have broken down, and individuals or entire departments may not have the training or the accountability to make sure that individuals or entire departments're protecting and serving all people and not just some.'
highlights_snippet: President Obama said Ferguson police inquiry exposed 'broken, racially biased system'
  Also described system as 'abusive' - and said it cannot occur elsewhere .
  
highlights_snippet: Police beat scores of people in 1965 march from Selma to Montgomery .
  