Of course, I wouldn't have expected otherwise.

Quote:WASHINGTON — The Justice Department will open a broad civil rights investigation into police practices in Ferguson, Mo., where a white police officer killed an unarmed black teenager last month and set off days of racially charged unrest, the city’s police chief and other officials said Wednesday.

The inquiry is in addition to the F.B.I. civil rights investigation that is looking specifically into the shooting of the teenager, Michael Brown, on Aug. 9. It is expected to be announced soon, according to two federal government officials who were briefed on the plans.

The broader Justice Department inquiry will cover whether the police in Ferguson have a history of discrimination or misuse of force beyond the Brown case, one of the officials said, but the Justice Department has not ruled out expanding it to other St. Louis County departments. Both officials spoke on condition of anonymity because the investigation had not been formally announced.

Zhion Jones, left, Tiara Lewis and Out Hea on Wednesday on West Florissant Avenue, which has served as the center of the protests in Ferguson, Mo.

Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. and his aides first discussed such an investigation weeks ago, immediately after the death of Mr. Brown, 18, when reports surfaced that the Ferguson police force had previously been accused of abuse.

Ferguson’s police chief, Thomas Jackson, said in an interview Wednesday night that he would welcome the investigation.

“We’ve been doing everything we can to become a professional police department and a professional city,” he said. “We have no intentional policies or procedures which discriminated or violated civil rights. But if we have anything there which may unintentionally do that, we need to know about it.”

Chief Jackson, whose department has 53 officers, four of whom are African-American, said he met with Justice Department officials on Wednesday afternoon and discussed the broader investigation. “Obviously, we have gaps, and any help we can get to help fill those gaps and to make ourselves stronger, we welcome,” he said.

Adolphus Pruitt, president of the N.A.A.C.P. chapter in the city of St. Louis, said the investigation should be “just a start.” He said black leaders had long complained about what he described as racial profiling, harassment and improper stops of black residents by white officers from suburban St. Louis police departments.

“They’re doing what we asked for,” Mr. Pruitt said of the Justice Department’s inquiry. “We’re hoping this is just a start. We’re hoping that it brings some resolution to any number of complaints we have in front of the Justice Department about various police departments in St. Louis County.”

In the Ferguson case, the Justice Department will conduct what it calls a “pattern or practice” investigation, with officials looking for evidence that the police have repeatedly violated residents’ civil rights. Such inquiries have been one of the Justice Department’s preferred tactics in addressing accusations of police misconduct.

Under Mr. Holder, the Justice Department has opened 20 such civil rights investigations into police departments nationwide, more than twice the number opened in the five years before he took office. The inquiries can lead to agreements that give the Justice Department oversight of the police departments. The department has said it is currently enforcing 13 such agreements, the largest number in its history.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/04/us/pol....html?_r=0

How about investigating the civil rights abused by the IRS , Mr. Holder? Hmmmm.????

This will become the lead news story for the next few weeks to take the Heat off of Obama over ISIS blunders of Not having a plan. After all elections are rapidly approaching and the main base needs to get fired up.

Who didn't see this coming?