By Steve Neavling
ticklethewire.com
The rash of shootings of unarmed black teens has prompted Attorney General Eric Holder to launch an investigation of law enforcement bias in five not-yet-named cities, the USA Today reports.
Holder said the shooting death of 18-year-old Michael Brown in Ferguson, MO., underscored the importance of an investigation.
To head the study is a team of criminal justice researchers who will make recommendations, Holder said.
The Rev. Al Sharpton welcomed the investigation.
“We must study the culture of policing … and the reason that the community responds the way it does,” Sharpton said in a telephone interview. He added that the Brown and Garner cases and others have “led to an even further erosion” of relations between police and communities already shaken by growing gun violence.
