Justice department releases #FergusonReport, over 170,000 messages sent as Twitter reacts
Twitter reacted today with more than 170,000 tweets in response to the Ferguson report released by the Justice Department.
Twitter revealed the level of response to the report, which detailed the inequalities in the Ferguson Police Department’s interactions with different races. The report is a follow-up to the shooting and killing of young, unarmed black teen, Michael Brown, in Ferguson last year.
Included in the report were mentions that black people were fined more, arrested more, and that members of the police department shared racist remarks about the president and his wife via email.
The public took to the internet, using hashtag #FergusonReport to share its sentiments on the report.
The #FergusonReport and @TheJusticeDept on Twitter today LINK: http://t.co/9jMlREYKvc http://t.co/zzRXMic614
— Twitter Data (@TwitterData) March 4, 2015
Read the #FergusonReport and tell me again that most African Americans don't live under occupation.
— Thaddeus Russell (@ThaddeusRussell) March 4, 2015
Let's be real honest, only non-Black people and brainwashed Black people are shocked by this #FergusonReport. #tb
— BlackVoices (@RawBlackness) March 4, 2015
#FergusonReport shows they really hate blk women. Couldn't imagine this sort of systemic abuse of white women. pic.twitter.com/xdAVjb81Lz
— Juan M. Thompson (@JuanMThompson) March 4, 2015
#FergusonReport shows they really hate blk women. Couldn't imagine this sort of systemic abuse of white women. pic.twitter.com/xdAVjb81Lz
— Juan M. Thompson (@JuanMThompson) March 4, 2015
people will approach the #FergusonReport as exceptional, when in fact you could write the same report about hundreds of municipalities
— Sklute. (@JSklute) March 4, 2015