More Ferguson Fallout

The chief of police in Ferguson, Mo., has resigned in the aftermath of a searing Department of Justice (DoJ) report.

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Asked if all the recent resignations are an admission that the Justice Department report was valid and that the problems described in it were real, [Mayor James] Knowles reiterated that Jackson's resignation was a mutual decision and officials have not admitted wrongdoing.

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He said Jackson's decision to resign was made in the best interest of the city.

  RT

And it had nothing to do with the city manager’s resignation or the DOJ’s threat to dismantle the police department if necessary.

By the way, the DOJ will NOT charge Officer Wilson with any civil rights violations. I wonder where he is.

At any rate, around midnight after Tom Jackson's resignation, two police officers were shot.  It doesn't seem to be known who did it.

“These police officers were standing there and they were shot, just because they were police officers,” said [St. Louis County police chief Jon] Belmar, who added that the officers sustained serious gunshot wounds.

The Webster Groves officer, a 32-year-old who has worked in the department for five years, was shot in the face, according to Belmar. The St Louis County officer, who is 41 and a 17-year law-enforcement veteran, was shot in the shoulder, he said.

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Several protesters at the scene said the shots appeared to have been fired from a hill behind a dwindling group of demonstrators who were celebrating the resignation of Ferguson police chief Thomas Jackson and were gathered across from the police department on the other side of South Florissant Road.

  MSN

Well, we assume they were shot just because they were police officers, right?  We need an investigation, don't we?

Things are not going well in Ferguson.