Posted by machine_easy2 on March 10, 2015, 4:41 pm, in reply to "Re: Ferguson Report"
The bigger picture? You had a city government deliberately fining people excessively. They were using the police as a way to extort money, particularly from black people. The police often lied, and/or used excessive force on people who were of no harm to anyone when they approached. They established fines to steep for many to pay, then sent the boys over to take them to jail.
People should never wind up in jail for trivial matters like having a license plate light out and inability to pay the hefty fine. Yet things like that were happening all the time.
It's lot's of things that, over a period of time, that caused #Ferguson, Brown and Wilson were a tipping point, but not the root issue at hand.