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         Reports: No Federal Charges Expected Against Ferguson Officer

   by VOA News

   U.S. news outlets say Justice Department lawyers are recommending that
   no federal civil rights charges be brought against a white police
   officer in the shooting death of an unarmed black teenager in Ferguson,
   Missouri last year.

   The New York Times said the lawyers are drafting a legal memorandum for
   Attorney General Eric Holder on the case against Darren Wilson, who
   shot and killed 18-year-old Michael Brown last July after a
   confrontation in the street.

   Officials say an FBI investigation of the shooting found no evidence
   that Wilson willfully intended to violate Brown's rights when he opened
   fire on him.

   Wilson was cleared of Brown's death last November by a state grand
   jury, a decision which triggered heated protests in the small,
   majority-black community near St. Louis.

   A similar decision by a New York City grand jury to exonerate a white
   police officer in the chokehold death of another man a several months
   later led to massive protests across the U.S. against aggressive police
   tactics against African Americans. The Justice Department has launched
   20 civil rights investigations against local police departments across
   the United States during Holder's tenure, including a probe of the
   Ferguson police department.
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