proceedings call on the heels of a justice department report this week that did two things. number one it cleared former ferguson, missouri darren wilson of civil rights violations in the slaying of michael brown. it also cast down that brown had his hands up. attorney general eric holder and his justice department also outlined in that report the abuse, the harassment and humiliation at the largely white ferguson police department has inflicted with alarming regularity on the community s mostly black citizens. african-americans made up over 90% of those charged with a highly discretionary offense described as and i quote, manner of walking along roadway. unquote. manner of walking along roadway. late yesterday holder said he would consider dismantling the ferguson police department if
sarah joins us now from ferguson with more. what did the mayor have to say? obviously the doj putting all that information out there to the public first, so he had to make some kind of response. it was him by himself. not the police chief. not the city manager. he talked about the fact that fer going to do things about those problems, and he talked about the fact that they are going to change the fee structure in the courts and they ll cap the revenue that they get from things like fees that they were going to stop fining people for not showing up to court. all things that have really frustrated this community, but the most concrete thing that we heard today in that press conference had to do with those racist emails and what those employees will now face. listen up. this is what the mayor had to say. this type of behavior will not be tolerated, and the ferguson police department or in any department in the city of ferguson. immediately upon leaving that meeting, the three individu
three mills melz. presumably the u.s. justice department does. they provided the descriptions. the first one dated april 20th april 2011 shows president obama as a chimpanzee. the second from june of that year describes a man seeking welfare for his dogs because they re mixed in color, unemployed lazy, can t speak english, and have no fridayinging clue who their daddies are. the third e-mail from that october shows a bare chested group of dancing women apparently in africa. the caption reads michelle obama s high school reunion. all three and there are more were sent and circulated among members of the police department and court system in ferguson missouri including supervisors. the part of what eric holder has called a searing report from the department of civil rights division 102 pages long and catalog aids pattern of racism in the nearly all white ferguson
these statistics. trust me no one in the ferguson or in the st. louis region are looking at stats every day to walk away with how they feel about their interaction with law enforcement. i think what you re seeing in this report is indicative of how people have felt for a long time. that s why all of the calls i received today, a large majority of them are not surprised by what the justice department is saying. they have been living this for quite some time. the feeling of disparity has been there even if it s not real. the feeling has been there. we remember the tear gas. the video we saw this summer of the violence break down in ferguson missouri. this comes down to things like the e-mails. evan shared one joke. another joke was this from an e-mail, an african-american woman was admitted into the hospital for a pregnancy termination. she asked who it was from.
i ll real one of them that refers to in 2008 in november right after the election of president barack obama. one person said president obama wouldn t likely last in office for very long because quote, what black man holds a steady job for four years. this is what the justice department says was going on behind the scenes. it underscores and backs up what we heard on the streets in ferguson and people were protesting after the killing of michael brown. that s pretty incredible. there were other jokes like that in the e-mails they uncovered. thank you so much. outfront now, the attorney for michael brown s family and former lapd officer from the st. louis area. let me start with you anthony. you just heard evans report. ferguson department repeatedly discriminating against blacks. you represent the family of michael brown. what s your response? well nobody is alarmed.