Ferguson Practices Were Racist Long Before Michael Brown Shooting

Bloomberg Businessweek

Early this year, before the summer weather in Ferguson, Missouri, turned to a fog of tear gas and a hail of rubber bullets, before the downscale suburb began to share national airtime with Sierra Leone and Iraq, a legal aid firm called ArchCity Defenders prepared a white paper that accused several municipalities in St. Louis County of stopping black drivers disproportionately for traffic violations,

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