Ferguson is swearing in its first black police chief

Ferguson, Missouri, is set to swear in its first-ever black police chief Monday, CNN reports. The city is still dealing with the fallout from a white police officer fatally shooting Michael Brown, an unarmed black teenager, in August 2014.

Maj. Delrish Moss, whom the largely white police department selected in April, will lead a reform called for by the U.S. Justice Department. Moss previously worked for the Miami Police Department for 32 years. In an April interview with WFOR-TV, he related Miami's race riots to the events he saw unfold in Ferguson after Brown's death.

"Most police officers can talk about where they were when riots occurred or how they responded to it in law enforcement but they can't talk to you about how they responded to it as a child with fires burning right outside your door," he said.

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Brown's death, in which officer Darren Wilson was not indicted, elicited nationwide protests drawing attention to police brutality against black people.