City leaders in Ferguson, Missouri have fired a police official and suspended two other officers hours after the release of a scathing Department of Justice report that condemned the local police department for routine and egregious violations of black residents’ civil and constitutional rights. The report, the culmination of a months-long investigation into the Ferguson police department launched by the DOJ following the killing of Michael Brown Jr. last summer, indicated that among other things, the department fostered a culture of racial hostility. Among the revelations brought to light by the DOJ report was that police and municipal court officials sent racist and misogynistic jokes in official city emails. “This type of behavior will not be tolerated in the Ferguson Police Department or any other department,” Ferguson Mayor James Knowles said during a press conference a few hours after Attorney General Eric Holder offered a blistering account of misconduct by the Ferguson police. Read more http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/the-ferguson-fallout-begins-one-cop-fired-2-suspended-racist-emails
