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CNN published an audio recording Monday indicating that police officer Darren Wilson paused in between barrages of gunfire as he killed 18-year-old Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri on August 9.
The Justice Department has also opened a federal civil rights investigation into Brown’s murder. To reach a conviction on federal charges the government would have to prove that Wilson acted with racial hostility towards Brown in order to willfully deprive him of his civil rights.
There remains a small possibility of a federal indictment and trial in relation to potential violations of Michael Brown’s civil rights. But according to the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse at Syracuse University, more than three-quarters of referrals on federal civil rights violations were closed without court action last year.
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