The most disturbing statistics are with regard to arrest, incarceration, and police force. Ninety-three percent of all arrests in Ferguson were of black Americans, and 88 percent of use-of-force incidents were against them. In cases were police had warrants, 92 percent were for blacks. Of those arrested for outstanding warrants, 96 percent were black, and among people jailed for more than two days, 95 percent were black. And in a terrible callback to Jim Crow, police used canines exclusively against black residents, including a 14-year-old boy who suffered puncture wounds in his arms, hands, and legs.
Justice Department report exposes Ferguson’s discrimination against blacks: Police and city officials had “unlawful bias against and stereotypes about African Americans.”

Source: Slate

11 Notes/ Hide

  1. seraphnick reblogged this from feministlibrarian
  2. apresmoiledeluge reblogged this from feministlibrarian
  3. feministlibrarian posted this