article_snippet: Parks said of Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson.
article_snippet: Parks said a 350,000-page report on racial profiling in the Missouri city that 'led to' Brown's fatal shooting at the hands of a white police officer on August 9, 2014 makes Parks clear there are 'rampant, wholesale, systemic' problems in the Ferguson police department that need to 'change soon for the safety of the citizens.'
article_snippet: The announcement is a reaction to the news on Wednesday that federal investigators found a pattern of discriminatory and .
article_snippet: illegal actions against African-Americans by the Ferguson Police .
article_snippet: a 350,000-page report on racial profiling in the Missouri city that 'led to' Brown's fatal shooting at the hands of a white police officer on August 9, 2014 said police in the St. Louis suburb of Ferguson .
article_snippet: overwhelmingly arrested and issued citations to blacks to boost .
article_snippet: city revenues through fines and court fees, creating a culture .
article_snippet: Attorney General Eric Holder said a 350,000-page report on racial profiling in the Missouri city that 'led to' Brown's fatal shooting at the hands of a white police officer on August 9, 2014 showed police created a 'highly toxic environment' in Ferguson.
article_snippet: Department began the civil rights investigation following the August shooting of Michael Brown (left), an unarmed black 18-year-old, by white police officer Darren Wilson (right)
article_snippet: Department staff interviewed hundreds of average citizens as part of the six-month probe, concluding that a large portion of Ferguson's population mistrusts the local police force and considers a large portion of Ferguson's population illegitimate .
article_snippet: a 350,000-page report on racial profiling in the Missouri city that 'led to' Brown's fatal shooting at the hands of a white police officer on August 9, 2014 will show that 88 per cent of people against whom police used excessive force were African-American . '
article_snippet: Let me be clear, this type of behavior will not be tolerated in the Ferguson Police Department or in any department in the city of Ferguson,' the city's mayor James Knowles said at the conference.
article_snippet: Seven emails included in a 350,000-page report on racial profiling in the Missouri city that 'led to' Brown's fatal shooting at the hands of a white police officer on August 9, 2014 showed police and court officials making racist jokes, including one that said Obama wouldn't remain president long, remarking 'what black man holds a steady job for four years.'
article_snippet: the city's mayor James Knowles did not take any questions at the presser, and though Ferguson Police Chief Tom Jackson had been expected to attend, no explanation was given for Ferguson Police Chief Tom Jackson absence.
article_snippet: The Justice Department investigation into Ferguson police began immediately after Brown's killing in August.
article_snippet: Analysis of more than 35,000 pages of police records found racist comments from officers as well as statistics that showed African-Americans make up 93 percent of arrests while accounting for only 67 percent of the population in Ferguson, an unnamed department official said.
article_snippet: The Justice Department also found that 88 per cent of people against whom police used excessive force were black.
article_snippet: Not tolerated: Ferguson Mayor James Knowles announced the firing of one police department employee identified among those who sent racist emails .
article_snippet: Holder also said that charges for minor violations such as 'manner of walking in roadway' disproportionately affected black residents and were used 'not as a public service, but as a tool for raising revenue.'
article_snippet: Nationwide protests of police actions that resulted in deaths of African Americans in Ferguson, New York and Cleveland laid bare racial tensions and what President Barack Obama called 'simmering distrust' between police and communities.
article_snippet: The Justice Department plans to use the findings to negotiate policy changes with Ferguson officials and enter a consent decree, or to sue the city to force change.