--- description: The report highlighted seven racist emails sent by police and court employees title: 2 Ferguson Officials Resign Following Justice Department Report image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt041cc3c26cccd920/698781f95f570fe8c4b158f9/police-in-ferguson.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [U.S.](/section/us/) ## U.S. Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # 2 Ferguson Officials Resign Following Justice Department Report by [NBC News](/author/nbc-news/) ## NBC News Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Mar 6, 2015 8:52 PM CUT  Police are deployed to keep peace along Florissant Avenue on Aug. 16, 2014 in Ferguson, Missouri. Police are deployed to keep peace along Florissant Avenue on Aug. 16, 2014 in Ferguson, Missouri.Scott Olson—Getty Images by [NBC News](/author/nbc-news/) ## NBC News Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Mar 6, 2015 8:52 PM CUT Two city officials in Ferguson, Mo., have resigned after a Justice Department report highlighted racist emails sent by police and court employees, a spokesman for the city said Friday. The officials, whose names were not immediately made public, had been placed on administrative leave. Jeff Small, a spokesman for the city, confirmed their resignations to NBC News. The report, released earlier this week, concluded that police in Ferguson had used excessive and dangerous force and had disproportionately targeted blacks. A white Ferguson police officer shot and killed Michael Brown, an unarmed black teenager, in August, touching off weeks of protests… [Read the rest of the story from our partners at NBC News](http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/michael-brown-shooting/ferguson-officials-suspended-after-doj-report-have-resigned-city-confirms-n318836?cid=par-time-article%5F20141002 "undefined") ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3735902/ferguson-officials-resign/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3735902/ferguson-officials-resign/"},"headline":"2 Ferguson Officials Resign Following Justice Department Report","datePublished":"2015-03-06T20:52:59.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T04:59:04.016Z","description":"The report highlighted seven racist emails sent by police and court employees","url":"https://time.com/3735902/ferguson-officials-resign/","keywords":["Crime","Race","Missouri","Ferguson topic"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt041cc3c26cccd920/698781f95f570fe8c4b158f9/police-in-ferguson.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"NBC News","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/nbc-news/"}],"articleSection":"U.S.","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt041cc3c26cccd920/698781f95f570fe8c4b158f9/police-in-ferguson.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Police are deployed to keep peace along Florissant Avenue on Aug. 16, 2014 in Ferguson, Missouri.","caption":"Police are deployed to keep peace along Florissant Avenue on Aug. 16, 2014 in Ferguson, Missouri.","creditText":"Scott Olson—Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/us/","name":"U.S."}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3735902/ferguson-officials-resign/","name":"2 Ferguson Officials Resign Following Justice Department Report"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"Dick Gregory on Race and Ferguson","description":"St. Louis native and Civil Rights activist describes the pain coming from the Ferguson community","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/S6qcoMx5/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2014-08-20T20:35:08.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/S6qcoMx5.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/3735902/ferguson-officials-resign/","duration":"PT3M27S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/3735902/ferguson-officials-resign/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```