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   Vigils, riots and a national debate over alleged police   
   misconduct have marked the three days since Saturday's shooting   
   of an unarmed black teenager by a police officer in a St. Louis   
   suburb. However the details about the incident leading up to   
   Michael Brown’s death in Ferguson, Missouri, remain murky – in   
   part because of a refusal by local authorities to release   
   information, including the name of the officer involved in the   
   shooting.   
      
   “It seems to me that the most important thing here is to let the   
   facts come out as quickly as possible, sending a signal to the   
   community that the investigation is proceeding and that the   
   investigation will in fact be transparent,” says Cornell William   
   Brooks, national president the NAACP. “I don’t believe, where   
   the name will be known at some point, delaying that for any   
   undue period of time helps the situation.”   
   Ferguson Police Department Chief Thomas Jackson backtracked on   
   an earlier statement that he would release the name once he   
   notified the officer, saying Tuesday the department no longer   
   plans on publicly identifying the shooter.   
      
   “The value of releasing the name is far outweighed by the risk   
   of harm to the officer and his family,” Jackson said, according   
   to The New York Times, referring to threats made against the   
   police on social media. Anti-police rhetoric has undergirded   
   many of the protests following Brown’s death. Furthermore, the   
   group of web hackers known as Anonymous have even threatened to   
   hack into the police department website and make public private   
   information about the officers and their families.   
      
   But activists argue that authorities’ reluctance to give more   
   details about their investigations is making the situation   
   worse, not better, as the uproar over Brown's death – a   
   culmination of long-standing tensions between the largely white   
   police force and the majority black Ferguson community –   
   continues.   
      
   “The police department owes a duty of safety to the police   
   officer, but there is a duty owed to the community in terms of   
   the accountability,” Brooks, who has been on the ground in   
   Ferguson, says. “It’s safe to say that people are unsatisfied   
   with their response so far.”   
      
   Even before the shooting, there had been concerns raised over   
   how police officers interact Ferguson residents. As The   
   Washington Post reported, a disproportionate number of black   
   drivers are pulled over and arrested in the area, and   
   researchers at University of California at Los Angeles are   
   studying the St. Louis County Police Department's policing   
   protocols. In January, the Missouri chapter of NAACP filed a   
   civil-rights complaint alleging that county officers engaged in   
   racial profiling in stores in the St. Louis area.   
      
   The Justice Department, working with the FBI, has launched a   
   supplementary, concurrent inquiry into the Brown's death, per a   
   statement from Attorney General Eric Holder. ? Meanwhile,   
   politicians like Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon? and Sen. Claire   
   McCaskill, D-Mo., and Sen. Roy Blunt, R-Mo., ? issued statements   
   echoing calls for transparency in investigations. Rep. John   
   Conyers, D-Mich., Rep. Marcia Fudge, D-Ohio, and Rep. Lacy Clay,   
   D-Mo., ? all members of the Congressional Black Caucus, also   
   sent a letter to Holder calling for an expanded look into a   
   suggested pattern of civil rights abuses by Ferguson officers,   
   independent of the St. Louis County’s Police Department   
   investigation into Brown's shooting.   
      
   “To the extent that this latest episode around unjustified use   
   of force is one in a series of concerns raised by the NAACP and   
   others, the scope of the investigation should include Michael   
   Brown and other civil rights violations that may be found,”   
   NAACP’s Brooks says.   
      
   President Barack Obama broke his silence on the matter with a   
   statement released Tuesday afternoon.   
      
   “The death of Michael Brown is heartbreaking, and Michelle and I   
   send our deepest condolences to his family and his community at   
   this very difficult time," he said. " As Attorney General Holder   
   has indicated, the Department of Justice is investigating the   
   situation along with local officials, and they will continue to   
   direct resources to the case as needed."   
      
   Tierney Sneed is an arts and culture writer. You can follow her   
   on Twitter or reach her at tsneed@usnews.com.   
      
   Tierney Sneed is a white self-hating liberal apologist who would   
   rather be raped and beaten to death by blacks rather than stand   
   up to them and point out the errors in their ways.   
      
   Blacks are nothing but farm animals wearing clothes.   
      
   http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2014/08/12/naacp-to-cops-   
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