The city of Ferguson has decided it will no longer prosecute Fred Watson.
Ferguson鈥檚 municipal prosecutor officially the charges Monday against
Federally mandated reforms to Ferguson鈥檚 municipal court required prosecutor Lee Clayton Goodman to drop the charges, he said.
Those reforms took effect in April 2016. Goodman said the delay was simply a matter of working through the legal process.
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Watson, who is African-American, filed a in July. A spokeswoman for his attorneys said that the lawsuit should still go forward because the now-dropped charges had a significant impact on Watson鈥檚 life.
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