what is your impression of it? well chris, you were there in ferguson so you know how people felt about the ferguson police department. the justice department came in and they did two separate investigations. one was to look at the civil rights situation involving officer wilson and whether he violated the civil rights of michael brown. the second one is going to be released tomorrow. we haven t seen the report we heard of the findings. that one was to look at the whole department not just at officer wilson. we know now that the justice department is not going to bring federal civil rights charges against officer wilson. the standard is very very high. they would have to prove that officer wilson willfully deprived michael brown of his constitutional rights. so they re not going to bring those charges. what they are going to do tomorrow is release these findings that show that the department has they re going
also 90% of all citations went to black residents who also accounted for 93% of all arrests. according to the report the justice department also found evidence of racial bias in e-mails written by ferguson police and court officials. washington post reporting one such e-mail from 2008 stated that president obama could not be president for very long because what black man holds a steady job for four years? the full justice department report scheduled to be released tomorrow criticized the ticketing practices. african-americans accounted for 95% of all manner of walking in roadway charges. jaywalking essentially. in his grand jury testimony, officer darren wilson said when he spotted michael brown, the first thing that struck me they were walking in the middle of the street. you re one of a very select group of people who have seen this report.
in arizona, the maricopa county sheriff s department has been sued by the justice department. so that is a possibility. a justice official told me today that so far, the ferguson police department has been cooperating. as you pointed out, the justice department went down to ferguson, they were able to look at 35,000 pages of documents. they sat in four court sessions. they interviewed hundreds of people including the police chief, the supervisory command officials, rank and file. so there was a lot of cooperation on that front, and it looks like they will continue to cooperate. one of the things that people told me repeatedly down in ferguson is ferguson is just one of a whole bunch of municipalities that are basically run the same way. you can point to jennings which was a, had its police department disbanded by the feds. and b, where darren wilson got his start. there s also the question of, does this stop at ferguson? well the reaction tonight is
we interact with citizens. the justice department s full report is expected to be released this afternoon. now the report is going to be public what is next for the city of ferguson? in this report the justice department will lay out what the problems are and demand they are fixed. that happens with city leaders and doj official reaching a settlement in which the city agrees to changes and having a monitor to oversee the process. if they don t agree, the justice department sues on charges of violating the constitution. local officials tell ush they are reviewing the report and hold a press conference once is officially released which should be this afternoon. a guilty plea from the former head of the cia. david petraeus has settled on a deal after allegedly sharing