Africanamericans. Now the pages detail systemic Racial Discrimination not just in the force but also in the courts and the report includes account after account of whats described as suspicious with legally unsupportable stops. I want to give you an example one man taken into custody for giving police his name as mike instead of michael. Cnn justice reporter evan perez has been scouring this report he broke the news yesterday about these doj findings and hes joining me live. Evan what else is in this report . Ana, these findings are really stark when you hear all the complaints when you and i were in ferguson from people and they describe the encounters they had with police and you see what the Justice Department is reporting here it really does back up what a lot of those people were talking about, and ill give you the example you gave of this person who gave his name as mike and the Police Officer charged him with lying, because his name was michael and because he provided an address
know that they have supported a racist system and we are not going to allow this to continue to happen in the state of missouri. in fact when you talk about the racism there, what we re hearing from the department of justice is this wasn t like accidental racism or accidental discrimination that just happened. it was intentional, according to the department of justice, said ferguson s harmful court and police practices are due at least in part to intentional discrimination as demonstrated by direct evidence of the racial bias and stereotyping of african-americans. sunny hostin you ve been in close touch with michael brown s family and their attorney. benjamin crump tested me a statement from leslie mcspaden and leslie brown jr. they ve seen disappointing news the killer of our son wouldn t be held accountable for his actions, while we are saddened by this decision we are encouraged that the department