(AP) – Democratic Congressman William Lacy Clay says the election of
Donald Trump as president should have no impact on the settlement agreement
between the city of Ferguson and the U.S. Department of Justice.
The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that Clay spoke Thursday at a St. Louis
forum on criminal justice reform. He noted that “career professionals” in the
Justice Department’s civil rights division are in charge of enforcing the
agreement, and are not subject to replacement by a new president.
Ferguson and the Justice Department reached a settlement in March requiring
significant reforms in the police and courts. The Justice Department
investigation was spurred by unrest that followed the fatal police shooting of
Michael Brown in 2014, which was a catalyst in the national Black Lives Matter
movement.
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