Federal Investigation Launched Into Ferguson Police Department

The U.S. Justice Department has launched a civil rights investigation into the police department of Ferguson, Missouri, where an unarmed black teenager was fatally shot by a white police officer last month. Federal investigators are looking into allegations that Ferguson police engaged in a repeated pattern of abusive treatment against the town's black residents. VOA’s Chris Simkins has more on the story.

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