Veteran Miami ******r named police chief in Ferguson
 

Veteran Miami ******r named police chief in Ferguson
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A veteran Miami police ******r with two decades of experience dealing with the media and community leaders will take over as police chief in Ferguson, hoping to help the St. Louis suburb heal as it rebounds after the fatal 2014 police shooting of Michael Brown.

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Miami Police Maj. Delrish Moss was an**unced chief Thursday, putting a black man in charge of a mostly white department that serves a town where African-Americans make up two-thirds of the residents.





The 18-year-old Brown, who was black and unarmed, was fatally shot by white ******r Darren Wilson during a street confrontation on Aug. 9, 2014. The shooting prompted months of unrest that sometimes grew violent and helped spark the national Black Lives Matter movement. Read more...


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