At least 300 people crammed into a room at St. Louis Community College’s Florissant Valley campus for the meeting hosted by the department’s Civil Rights Division. The investigators were seeking direct input from residents who live in and near Ferguson.
“We go in and we try to figure out: ‘Is (misconduct) happening? Is it a pattern? Is it violating the constitution? And most importantly, how do we fix it?’” said Christy Lopez, deputy counsel of the Civil Rights Division.
There was no public comment period, but tables were set up for people to share their concerns privately with DOJ officials. And investigators got an earful.