Holder Heads to Ferguson
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AG Eric Holder to Ferguson: We Will Learn What Happened
The Justice Department intends to determine exactly what happened in the shooting death of 18-year-old Michael Brown, using the department's "full resources," says Attorney General Eric Holder in a newspaper op-ed published as a Missouri grand jury begins hearing evidence Wednesday.
"At a time when so much may seem uncertain, the people of Ferguson can have confidence that the Justice Department intends to learn — in a fair and thorough manner — exactly what happened," Holder wrote in The St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
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The two men in open-collar shirts sat facing each other, papers and a BlackBerry strewn on a coffee table, sober looks on both their faces. One leaned forward, gesturing with his left hand, clearly doing the talking. The other sat back in his chair, two fingers pressed to his temple as he listened intently.
When violence erupted last week after a police shooting in Missouri, President Obama and Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. huddled on Martha’s Vineyard where both were on vacation. But as the most powerful African-Americans in...
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Holder to Missouri in bid to ease tensions over Brown shooting 
After years of causing angst for White House political aides by delving into issues of race, Attorney General Eric Holder is heading to Ferguson, Missouri, as President Barack Obama's top emissary.
The trip on Wednesday to the St. Louis suburb now in the spotlight represents the latest effort by the Obama administration to find a way to calm racial tensions following the police shooting of Michael Brown, 18.
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