Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
Federal Reports on Police Killings: Ferguson, Cleveland, and Baltimore, the complete reports from the Department of Justice's landmark investigations of police violence in three major American cities.
This collection opens with the brief Department of Justice statement about the decision to close the investigation into the death of Trayvon Martin in 2012 --- an event that animated the Black Lives Matter movement and can be interpreted as a catalyst for the DOJ's inquiries into law enforcement.
The reports that followed speak for themselves.
Synopsis
After a series of incidents in which police officers in Chicago, Cleveland, Baltimore and Ferguson, Missouri, killed four unarmed African Americans--Laquan McDonald, Tamir Rice, Freddie Gray, and Michael Brown--resulting in widespread civic unrest and violent protests, the Department of Justice launched investigations into each incident, including in-depth probes into the police departments behind them.
This is the complete and unexpurgated text of their findings.