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TIME U.S. Ferguson Shooter Is a Damn Punk, Eric Holder Says Chip SomodevillaGetty Images U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder delivers remarks about the shooting of two police officers in Ferguson, Mo., while announcing the first six pilot sites for the National Initiative for Building Community Trust and Justice at the Department of Justice in Washington, D.C., on March 12, 2015 The Attorney General offered the Justice Department's support in the manhunt for the shooter of two Ferguson police officers

The gunman who wounded two police officers in Ferguson, Mo., is a damn punk, Attorney General Eric Holder said Thursday.

The two officers were shot early Thursday morning at a protest in front of the Ferguson Police Department after the Ferguson police chief announced his resignation in the wake of a excoriating Department of Justice report that found widespread racial bias among the citys police. The shooter was still at large as of Thursday afternoon.

This was not someone trying to bring healing to Ferguson, Holder said at a gathering for the Justice Departments launch of a pilot program to build trust between law enforcement and local communities. This was a damn punk who was trying to sow discord in an area thats trying to get its act together and trying to bring together a community that has been fractured for too long.

The Attorney General reiterated a statement he released earlier in the day condemning the heinous attack and offering the support of the Justice Department and the FBI.

He also said that local law enforcement in Ferguson has made good faith steps since the release of the Justice Department report last week.

But make no mistake, we still have a long way to go to bring about this systemic change that is needed and that is long overdue in that area, he said. But I think the earlier indications have truly been positive.

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BIRMINGHAM, Ala. | Federal officials are planning to announce Birmingham as one of six pilot sites for a national initiative on restoring relationships between law enforcement and citizens.

The United States Attorney's office for the Northern District of Alabama says Attorney General Eric Holder will announce the sites on Thursday for the department's National Initiative for Building Community Trust and Justice. Holder is also expected to hold a discussion with students and police officers before announcing the sites for the pilot program at 2 p.m.

The initiative was announced in April and is a partnership between federal officials and criminal justice experts focused on providing training, policy and research to address distrust between citizens and law enforcement.

The initiative comes after several high profile fatal police-involved shootings involving unarmed blacks and Latino men.

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. | Federal officials are planning to announce Birmingham as one of six pilot sites for a national initiative on restoring relationships between law enforcement and citizens.

The United States Attorney's office for the Northern District of Alabama says Attorney General Eric Holder will announce the sites on Thursday for the department's National Initiative for Building Community Trust and Justice. Holder is also expected to hold a discussion with students and police officers before announcing the sites for the pilot program at 2 p.m.

The initiative was announced in April and is a partnership between federal officials and criminal justice experts focused on providing training, policy and research to address distrust between citizens and law enforcement.

The initiative comes after several high profile fatal police-involved shootings involving unarmed blacks and Latino men.

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March 4, 2015: Attorney General Eric Holder speaks at the Justice Department in Washington.(AP)

Attorney General Eric Holder has used three different email aliases during his six years in the top job at the Justice Department, officials say.

At a time when Hillary Clinton is facing criticism for exclusively using personal email while secretary of state, DOJ officials confirmed to Fox News on Wednesday that Holder had his own email quirks. While the attorney general, they say, did business on the government system, he did so under multiple names and is now on his third email address.

Officials cast Holder's email aliases as a way to avoid spam and guard against security risks -- though the use of aliases by other top officials, including former EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson, has raised transparency concerns in the past.

The first email alias Holder used was Henry Yearwood, a combination of the first name of an uncle and his mother's maiden name.

At some point, he changed it to David Kendricks, which was an homage to the names of two members of the 60's Motown R&B band The Temptations, Eddie Kendricks and David Ruffin.

Justice Department spokesman Brian Fallon would not disclose Holder's third and current email alias, saying it had something to do with the name of an athlete -- but "I can't tell you that because then we'd have to change it again and we'd rather not do that with only a week or so to go," before Holder is expected to step down from his post. (The Senate is planning a vote in the coming days on confirming the nominee to replace him, Loretta Lynch.)

Senior DOJ officials, however, stress that -- unlike Clinton -- Holder has never used a private email address to do any work as the attorney general.

They say all of Holder's email addresses which he's done official business on, including the one he is presently using, are government email accounts on the @usdoj.gov domain.

"The attorney general uses a Justice Department email address to conduct official business. As with many Cabinet officials, he does not use his given name in the handle of his email address," Fallon said.

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