The city manager of Ferguson, Missouri, resigned on Tuesday during a City Council meeting, a week after the Department of Justice released a report that said he was responsible for overseeing the police and courts as they engaged in racially biased practices.
John Shaw has held the position since 2007, and resigned just one day after the city’s municipal judge stepped down and was replaced by a state appellate judge assigned by the Missouri Supreme Court. The report shows that Shaw pushed the police to use tickets and fines to bring in revenue, and ignored calls to change the city's criminal justice system, The New York Times reports.
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