Nearly two years after Michael Brown, an unarmed black teenager, was shot and killed in Ferguson, Missouri, by a white police officer, a team led by lawyers at Squire Patton Boggs has been hired to monitor the Ferguson Police Department and ensure that U.S. Department of Justice-mandated reforms are put in place.
The appointment of the Squire Patton team, led by government investigations and white-collar partner Clark Ervin, was revealed in court documents Friday by U.S. District Judge Catherine Perry of the Eastern District of Missouri. The lawyers’ job will be to assess whether the police department is implementing a series of reforms meant to fix what the DOJ said amounts to a pattern of unconstitutional law enforcement practices.
