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The Daily Show takes on the DOJ’s Ferguson report: “Fuck these people”

Last night The Daily Show’s “Senior Ferguson Correspondent” Jessica Williams took on the recent Justice Department report about Ferguson’s racially biased policing, and pulled zero punches:

After starting with a heartfelt “fuck these people,” Williams gets covered in a thick coat of tickets for spurious offenses like “Jaystanding.”

Of course, Jason Jones has a slightly different experience: after he drunkenly wanders on camera drinking a beer and carrying a huge gun, a police officer pulls over to question him — about whether Williams was “bothering” him.

It’s almost as if there is some difference between Jones and Williams that might lead the Ferguson police to treat them differently. What could it possibly be?

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