because you never know what s contained in that vehicle. when you make mention of the number of, excuse me, the victims in this case, it s horrific. and we say to ourselves these people put their pants on one leg at a time to step out ask and get shot. i just revert back to vehicle stops, very, very, very laura: this was so mundane. the guy didn t have his turn signal on, and it ended up, you know, an hour later with 7 people dead and multiple people shot just for a turn signal. but like you said, you just never know what you re going to get. yeah. i mean, it s horrific, to say the least. and then another thing we want to take into consideration, the odessa police department had a really challenging endeavor, a gun battle in the midst to to after vehicle pursuit is i can t explain how dangerous that is. laura: right. when we think about vehicle pursuits, often times procedural guidelines frown upon vehicle pursuits, but this was a situation where you absolutely had to interdict
department decided it wasn t even clear that he had his hands up, but he was definitely moving towards officer darren wilson when he was shot and killed, john. evan, hang on one second. we saw activity at the news conference. can you put that picture up? it looks like it was about to begin. now it looks like it is not about to begin. we ll try to go back there as soon as we see people start talking there. evan, let s get back to what we heard from the justice department. evan, the justice department release add scathing report about the ferguson police department, incredible details about a years long pattern of prejudice, largely in some cases to raise money. what did they say? reporter: there were incredible statistics in this report, this 100-page report, including 85% of people subject to vehicle stops were african-american. 93% of all people arrested in ferguson between 2012 and 2014
this happens. and now the united states government says, you re right, it did and it has been. the accusations went national in the violent aftermath of the michael brown killing. but the justice department looked into the police department s history years before anyone knew who michael brown was and maybe even before he was born. and they found what they call, quote, a pattern of discrimination. a pattern. that means no coincidences, no accidents and no isolated incidents. i m not going to hammer you with all the numbers but it all came down to doing the math. so indulge me for a moment. ferguson s population, 67% black, just over two-thirds of the population. but look at two years worth of arrest records. 97% of people put in handcuffs, african-americans. 85% of vehicle stops, black drivers.
t. rowe price. invest with confidence. six months after 18-year-old michael brown was shot and killed, the u.s. justice department finds that the ferguson police department has a pattern of bias against black residents in violation of the 14th amendment. according to the justice department report between 2014 and 2014 african-americans made up 67% of the population but accounted for 85% of all vehicle stops, 90% of all citations and 93% of seecitations. the report includes e-mails with
we have the findings of the department of justice investigation into the ferguson police department and they are bad. they find a pattern of racial bias everything from widespread racist jokes to unbelievable traffic stops statistics local leaders demanding resignation and possibly the elimination of the police department entirely. joining us is the columnist for the st. louis american liz brown, along with senior local analyst and former prosecutor jeffrey toobin. these numbers stink. objectively stink. 85% of vehicle stops african-americans. 90% of citations african-americans. 93% of arrests, of african-americans. and the little one on the bottom may matter the most the