Update (3/11/2015 7:20 p.m.): Police Chief Thomas Jackson will resign from the Ferguson Police Department effective March 19. He is to receive a year’s salary, close to $100,000, and health insurance as severance.
By Michael Nam
Multiple outlets including CNN and Fox News are reporting that the besieged top cop of Ferguson’s police department will be stepping down. Two other named officials, Judge Ronald Brockmeyer and City Manager John Shaw, resigned this week following the Justice Department’s highly critical investigation of the Missouri town’s police force and judiciary.
