article_snippet: A serving Ferguson police officer revealed that A serving Ferguson police officer broke down in tears after A serving Ferguson police officer read the Department of Justice report which condemned A serving Ferguson police officer and said: ‘I just close my eyes and wish my eyes wasn’t like that’.
article_snippet: A serving Ferguson police officer said that A serving Ferguson police officer colleagues were A serving Ferguson police officergood cops’ and that his colleagues were ‘hurting’ just like the rest of the community.
article_snippet: A serving Ferguson police officer said:
article_snippet: and we have to let they vent, but I will protect this city, I will protect Ferguson’.
article_snippet: One Ferguson city employee has been fired and two are under investigation but former Ferguson officer Darren Wilson did not face charges.
article_snippet: Critics however have called for the entire Ferguson police force to be disbanded and shut down.
article_snippet: Attorney General Eric Holder said that in Ferguson a 'deep distrust and hostility often characterized interactions between police and residents'.
article_snippet: Attorney General Eric Holder said Ferguson was: 'A community where this harm frequently appears to stem, at least in part, from racial bias – both implicit and explicit.
article_snippet: And a community where all of these conditions, unlawful practices, and constitutional violations have not only severely undermined the public trust, eroded police legitimacy, and made local residents less safe – but created an intensely charged atmosphere where people feel under assault and under siege by those charged to serve and protect people' If Brown's family win Brown's family civil lawsuit Brown's family could get a payout or the city of Ferguson could reach a settlement before it goes to trial.
article_snippet: Speaking to Daily Mail Online, the Ferguson police officer said the official report misrepresented not just the force, but the city. '
article_snippet: the official report is hard to read, but that’s not me,' the Ferguson police officer said.
article_snippet: The statistics in the official report are scathing: whilst Ferguson is 67 per cent black, just three of the 53 officers on their police force are non-white, or six per cent.
article_snippet: The 67 per cent of African Americans in Ferguson account for 93 per cent of arrests made from 2012-2014.
article_snippet: The only public comment from Ferguson officials has been a brief statement from the city’s mayor James Knowles, who refused to answer questions.
highlights_snippet: Serving officer is first member of department to speak out after scathing report by Department of Justice investigators .
  