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2022-11-24 04:22:39 UTC - HELPFUL
Rated by Participant: DD2F9DBFD8BA79C7AC420722BE7B9F8E801BC116FF70DF172F595BB78ACAFE4E
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The Michael Brown shooting may have been the spark but the Ferguson protests were also about systemic injustices there and nationally. The DOJ found there there was a pattern of racial bias in both the Ferguson police department and its municipal courts. https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-announces-findings-two-civil-rights-investigations-ferguson-missouri
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