A city spokesman announced that a federal judge on Tuesday approved an agreement between the U.S. Justice Department and Ferguson, Missouri, to reform the city's police department after the 2014 shooting of an unarmed black teenager that sparked violent protests.
The Justice Department has filed a case against the city of Ferguson regarding its local justice system. The city, however, is recosidering to revise it following the suit in order to void the case.
The St. Louis suburb of Ferguson, Missouri, the site of a year of occasionally violent protests over the police killing of an unarmed black teen, will remain under a state of emergency for at least another night, county officials said on Wednesday.
Authorities declared a state of emergency in Ferguson, Missouri, on Monday to prevent a repeat of the violence that erupted during protests overnight to mark the police shooting of an unarmed black man one year ago that ignited a national firestorm on race relations.
