Ferguson Commission Report Recommends Drastic Changes

"We know that talking about race makes a lot of people uncomfortable, but make no mistake: this is about race." Those words are from the just published Ferguson Commission report. It was set up to find a way forward after the riots and protests which followed the shooting by a white police officer of African-American teenager Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri in August last year. Newsday speaks to the co-chair of the Commission, Reverend Starsky Wilson.

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(Photo: Members of a 16 member Ferguson Commission are sworn in by Missouri Governor Jay Nixon, Credit: Getty Images)