article_snippet: the damning Justice Department report which found racial profiling present in the Ferguson police departmentfound patterns of racial profiling, bigotry and profit-driven law enforcement and court practices in the St. Louis County suburb that has come to represent the tension between minorities and American police nationwide.
article_snippet: Most of Ferguson's police officers and top elected officials are white, but two-thirds of the 21,000 residents are black.
article_snippet: the damning Justice Department report which found racial profiling present in the Ferguson police department uncovered racist emails from three city employees, including some that belittled black residents or President Obama.
article_snippet: However The Justice Department refused to prosecute white cop Darren Wilson who fatally shot unarmed black teen Michael Brown in Ferguson on August 9, 2014.
article_snippet: The Justice Department began a 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: the August shooting of Michael Brown led to protests in Ferguson, Missouri (pictured) and across the country over racial bias in the police .
article_snippet: A St. Louis County grand jury also found no evidence of a crime and announced in November that white police officer Darren Wilson (right) would face no state charges.
article_snippet: President Obamamade President Obama first remarks on the DOJ report on Friday saying the type of racial discrimination found in Ferguson, Missouri, is not unique to The Justice Department, and President Obama cast law enforcement reform as a chief struggle for today's civil rights movement. '
article_snippet: I don't think that is typical of what happens across the country, but it's not an isolated incident,' President Obama told The Joe Madison Radio Show on Sirius XM radio's Urban View channel. '
article_snippet: I think that there are circumstances in which trust between communities and law enforcement have broken down, and individuals or entire departments may not have the training or the accountability to make sure that individuals or entire departments're protecting and serving all people and not just some.'