Attorney General Eric Holder Jr. made the fight against police misconduct a priority long before his visit last week to Ferguson, Mo., where violent clashes between law enforcement and protesters flared following the police shooting of an unarmed black teenager.

Holder made clear during meetings with community leaders, students and officials that what happens in Ferguson is personal to him — and pivotal to his legacy as the nation’s first African-American attorney general.

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