article_snippet: Justice Department launched an investigation into .
article_snippet: Ferguson's police department and municipal court after the August 9 shooting death of unarmed black teenager Michael Brown by a . white police officer.
article_snippet: Since Brown's death seven months ago, Mayor James Knowles has been the public face and voice of Ferguson's city government.
article_snippet: Catalyst: the Justice Department launched an investigation into policing practices in Ferguson after Officer Darren Wilson (left) shot and killed 18-year-old Michael Brown in August .
article_snippet: Jackson said, according to the federal inquiry.
article_snippet: US Attorney General Eric Holder called the DOJ's report 'searing,' saying the DOJ's investigation into the police department found the Ferguson Municipal community to be one where both policing and municipal court practices were found to be 'disproportionately harmful to African-American residents.'
article_snippet: Speaking out: US Attorney General Eric Holder called the DOJ's report 'searing' Ferguson Municipal Mayor James Knowles said Friday that the city is pursuing reforms to reach a settlement with the DOJ, Reuters reports.
article_snippet: Speaking at a town hall event in South Carolina two days after the release of the DOJ report, President Obama said the Ferguson Municipal probe exposed a 'broken, racially biased system.'
article_snippet: A St. Louis County grand jury and the Justice Department both declined to bring charges in the Michael Brown shooting against Officer Darren Wilson, who left the Justice Department.
article_snippet: the DOJ report said Wilson acted in self-defense when Wilson shot Michael Brown.
article_snippet: But A St. Louis County grand jury and the Justice Department both said in A St. Louis County grand jury and the Justice Department both last week that Ferguson Municipal's police and court systems functioned as a money-making enterprise that heightened tensions among residents.
article_snippet: President Obama said the Ferguson probe exposed a 'broken, racially biased system' the DOJ report cited cases of racial profiling and bigotry by the predominantly white police force in the mostly black St. Louis suburb.
article_snippet: Michael Brown's shooting prompted protests in the St. Louis area and across the nation.