article_snippet: It's only now that federal authorities have documented the institutionalized racism, as part of a civil rights investigation after a white police officer's fatal shooting of an unarmed black teen, Michael Brown, 19, last summer.
article_snippet: The officer, Darren Wilson, was cleared of federal civil rights violations this week and was earlier cleared of criminal wrongdoing.
article_snippet: the U.S. Justice Department is expected to pursue a court-supervised consent decree that requires the city of Ferguson to make changes to the city of Ferguson police and courts.
article_snippet: Ferguson police chief mum on The Justice Department's report .
article_snippet: After the Justice Department announcement this week, Ferguson Mayor James Knowles told reporters that Ferguson Mayor James Knowles, Police Chief Tom Jackson and City Attorney Stephanie Karr met with federal officials about he, Police Chief Tom Jackson and City Attorney Stephanie Karr findings and initiated several initiatives, including reforms to the municipal court.
article_snippet: All the reforms are intended to "move City Attorney, All the reforms residents and our entire community forward," Ferguson Mayor James Knowles said.
highlights_snippet: Ferguson mayor announces reforms so Ferguson mayor troubled town can move forward .