Self-defense Claim Remains Big Hurdle For Feds In Brown Killing
Category: POLITICS
Even if the federal government declines to prosecute Wilson, it is highly probable that the Justice Department under a 1994 federal law will take the Ferguson police department to federal court itself. Once there, upon a showing of a pattern of civil rights violations, they can force reforms under consent decrees with federal monitors.
By Brian Levin, J.D., ContributorDirector, Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism, Californ..., 2014-11-26