The U.S. Justice Department has filed a lawsuit against the city of Ferguson, Missouri after their city council rejected a consent decree seeking to reform their police and municipal court system. The city and the federal government reached an agreement.
A grand jury has decided not to indict anyone in the case of Sandra Bland, whose death in police custody raised questions of excessive force and the role of race.
The grand jury met for more than eight hours Monday.
"After reviewing all the evidence in the death of Sandra Bland, a Waller grand jury did not return an indictment in the death of Bland, nor were any indictments returned against any employee of the Waller County Jail," said Darrell Jordan, a special prosecutor handling the case.
The grand jury will reconvene in January to consider other indictments.
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