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Ferguson is a city in St. Louis County, Missouri, United States. [1] It is part of the Greater St. Louis metropolitan area. Per the 2020 census , the population was 18,527, and predominantly black.
Fant v. The City of Ferguson is a putative class action claim was filed on May 26, 2015, against the City of Ferguson, Missouri.The claims were pursuant of 42 U.S.C. § 1983, where the code lays out the applicability, or lack thereof, for the legal deprivation of rights. [1]
The Ferguson Police Department (FPD) is a law enforcement agency serving Ferguson, Missouri. Chief Troy Doyle was appointed as the Chief of Police of Ferguson Police on Mar 27, 2023 by Interim City Manager John Hampton, and is Ferguson's Fifth African-American Chief of Police.
The Ferguson probes became part of a cluster of high-profile investigations into police departments, work that fed a national dialogue on race and law enforcement and formed a legacy item of the ...
The lawsuit claims that Ferguson's police routinely violated the civil rights of the city's black residents, in part to generate revenue from tickets.
Authorities declared a state of emergency in Ferguson, Missouri, after gunfire erupted on the anniversary of a high-profile police shooting and prosecutors on Monday charged an 18-year-old man ...
The city has recently raised bonds from $100 to $1,000. [104] On October 3, Ferguson police chief Thomas Jackson ceded responsibility for managing protests in the city to the St. Louis County police department. The limited resources of Ferguson police made it difficult to handle daily protests after their resumption the previous week. [111]
A decade ago in St. Louis, Michael Brown Jr., a Black teen, was shot by a white officer, sparking protests and media focus on police violence against Black people.