ST. LOUIS — In the aftermath of Michael Brown’s death, legal activists suggested that some of the raw anger in suburban St. Louis had its roots in an unlikely place — traffic court. It was there, they said, that low-income ...

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Militarized policing, racial bias and profiling, and over criminalization and incarceration are just a few of the civil and human rights issues facing the nation. Those and other topics were discussed Tuesday by members of the Senate Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee ...

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FERGUSON, Mo. (AP) — The stepfather of Michael Brown has apologized for angry comments he made after the grand jury decided not to indict the police officer who killed his stepson, but said his remarks had nothing to do with ...

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WASHINGTON — A Missouri grand jury’s decision to spare police officer Darren Wilson from criminal charges is the latest in a long line of police shooting investigations that show the latitude afforded law enforcement in using deadly force. The question ...

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ST. LOUIS (AP) — A judge has extended into January the term of the grand jury considering whether a white suburban St. Louis police officer should be charged in the shooting death of a black 18-year-old. As expected, the grand ...

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FLORISSANT, Mo. — Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon said Thursday that unspecified “operational shifts” are ahead for law enforcement in the St. Louis suburb that has been the scene of violent protests since a police officer fatally shot an unarmed black ...

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