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Black drivers in Ferguson, Missouri, the St. Louis suburb that experienced violent protests after the shooting death of Michael Brown in August, were more than twice as likely last year to be stopped by police than white drivers, a state report shows. Statewide, black drivers were 75 percent more likely to be subjected to a motor vehicle stop than their white counterparts, and statistics suggest blacks have been stopped at an increasingly disproportionate amount in the state since 2000, an annual report released Monday by Attorney General Chris Koster shows. The annual report was the first to be published after the shooting death of Brown last year touched off serious unrest and gave rise to accusations of institutional racism among police in St.