Ferguson report coming soon, Obama tells lawmakers

This story has been updated.

WASHINGTON -- President Obama told black lawmakers Tuesday that the White House report on police-community relations will be completed soon.

The chairman of the Congressional Black Caucus, Rep. G.K. Butterfield, told reporters outside the White House Tuesday that Obama told them the Justice Department report on the Ferguson Police Department would be released "in a few days."

But the executive director of the caucus, Abdul Henderson, said Wednesday that Butterfield misspoke and that Obama was talking about a different report that will be released in the coming weeks.

The Justice Department is investigating the Ferguson, Mo. police department following the shooting of the unarmed black teenager. That shooting resulted in unrest last August after it happened and again in November when a local grand jury failed to indict Officer Darren Wilson.

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That report is one of the last things on the agenda of outgoing Attorney General Eric Holder, who has said he wanted to complete the investigation before leaving office. Obama's nominee to replace him, Loretta Lynch, is expected to have a Senate confirmation vote Feb. 26. Law enforcement sources have said they do not expect the Justice Department investigation to result in federal charges.

A separate report from the White House Task Force on 21st Century Policing is due by March 2.

More than two dozen members of the black caucus met with Obama for 90 minutes at the White House Tuesday. Butterfield, D-N.C., said members pressed Obama on a number of civil rights issues, including the killing of unarmed African-American men and teenagers in Sanford, Fla., Ferguson, New York City and Cleveland.

Butterfield said the conversation went beyond police misconduct to include prosecutorial misconduct, the incarceration rate and other systemic problems in the criminal justice system.

"The president gets it," Butterfield said. "He's a lawyer by training. He's lived in the real world. He was a community organizer on the south side of Chicago."

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