article_snippet: Appalled: Eric Holder said Eric Holder was shocked by Ferguson Police department, and prepared to tear Ferguson Police department apart and start over .
article_snippet: U.S. Attorney General Eric .
article_snippet: Eric Holder has threatened to dismantle Ferguson's police department to force through reforms after a damning report found widespread racism in the Missouri force.
article_snippet: Eric Holder told reporters that Justice Department is 'prepared to use all the power that we have' to push through change in the beleaguered Missouri force, which was castigated nationwide over the killing of Michael Brown.
article_snippet: Eric Holder, speaking today in Maryland in front of Air Force One, told reporters that Justice Department plans include 'everything from working with Justice Department plans to coming up with an entirely new structure'.
article_snippet: When asked if that meant dismantling the Missouri force and starting over, Eric Holder said: 'If that's what's necessary, we're prepared to do that.'
article_snippet: Putting up with it: Holder stands watch as demonstrators rally outside the police department's headquarters earlier this week after A Justice Department report was published .
article_snippet: Holder said: 'The notion that you would use a law enforcement agency or law enforcement generally to generate revenue, and then the callous way in which that was done and the impact that it had on the lives of the ordinary citizens of that municipality, was just appalling.
article_snippet: Holder also said President Barack Obama's task force on .
highlights_snippet: Eric Holder said Justice Department would do what is 'necessary'
  Said radical steps could be taken to fix the Missouri force .
  