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2022-11-23 22:43:16 UTC - SOMEWHAT_HELPFUL
Rated by Participant: EC57530BBAB730C9070CC4C71FD27D09FAD7A45341B922EC8461391115930CB6
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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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