Some witnesses said Brown had his hands up when he was shot, but Wilson, 28, told a grand jury he fired when the 6-foot-4, 292-pound teen charged toward him with the look “like a demon.”
The shooting set off days protests and riots in the suburban St. Louis town. Ferguson businesses were looted and torched following the grand jury decision in November not to indict Wilson.
The feds are threatening to file a lawsuit against the Ferguson, Missouri, police force to get it to change a pattern of racially discriminatory tactics, according to a report.
The legal warning comes just days before Attorney General Eric Holder is expected to announce findings of the Justice Department’s investigation of the fatal police shooting of unarmed black teen Michael Brown.
The federal probe also looked at racial discrimination in the police department, which is 94% white.
The feds are not expected to charge former Ferguson Officer Darren Wilson in Brown’s death, but is preparing a lawsuit to force changes in the police force, sources told.
Federal investigators looked into a lawsuit filed on behalf of low-income Ferguson residents, who complained of racial injustice. The suit charged that officers in Ferguson and nearby Jennings targeted minorities with minor traffic infractions and jailed them when they couldn’t pay the fine.
The Justice Department’s pending lawsuit would ask for court supervision of the Ferguson Police Department to force changes in how officers deal with the minority communities they serve, CNN reported.
In a speech Tuesday to the National Press Club, Holder hinted at the outcome of the federal investigation.
“I think everybody will see when we announce our results that the process that we have engaged in is, as I said back at the time when I went to Ferguson, independent, thorough and based on all the facts,” Holder said. “And I am confident that people will be satisfied with the results that will be announced.”
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The Rev. Al Sharpton, who led protests in the wake of Brown’s death, applauded the Justice Department’s pending lawsuit as “a monumental step on a long road towards police accountability and fairness in our quest for justice.”
“While we feel that this does not answer the specific violations of the civil rights of Michael Brown being violated, it gives a strong national message to police departments around the country,” Sharpton said.
On Aug. 9, Wilson, who is white, shot Brown six times on a Ferguson street while searching for suspects in a convenience store robbery.
Some witnesses said Brown had his hands up when he was shot, but Wilson, 28, told a grand jury he fired when the 6-foot-4, 292-pound teen charged toward him with the look “like a demon.”
The shooting set off days protests and riots in the suburban St. Louis town. Ferguson businesses were looted and torched following the grand jury decision in November not to indict Wilson.
