Jon Stewart Slams Ferguson Cops and Fox News

AlterNet
March 06, 2015

When police in Ferguson, Missouri use force, 88 percent of the time it's against black people. That's one of the many infuriating findings of the DOJ's Ferguson report highlighted by Jon Stewart last night. "You know they probably just hit that one white guy by accident when they were trying to hit a black guy," Stewart notes. 

"How deep did the Ferguson police department's racism go? Skin color was even an issue for the members of the police force who cannot see in color." Police dogs. Even their police dogs are racist. 

Daily Show correspondent Jessica Williams summed it all up from the scene. "F*ck these people," she says. Watch below. 

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