Posted on 09/18/2014 9:16:53 AM PDT by jazusamo
Attorney Gen. Eric Holder on Thursday announced a review of racial bias within the nation’s law enforcement agencies, further expanding the federal response to last month’s fatal police shooting of an unarmed black teen in Missouri.
The three-year initiative will include five "major activities" in yet unidentified U.S. cities, undertaken by a consortium of criminal justice experts funded through a $4.75 million grant. The effort, which will also involve testing policing strategies and providing training, is meant to develop a strategy to combat bias within police forces around the country.
Holder said the death of 18-year-old Michael Brown highlighted the government’s obligation "to ensure fairness, to eliminate bias and to build community engagement."
Ferguson Police Officer Darren Wilson, who is white, allegedly shot Brown six times during a confrontation on Aug. 9, setting off weeks of violent protests and igniting a national debate on the use of force.
Holder has launched federal civil rights probes into the shooting itself, as well as a broader investigation of the predominantly white Ferguson Police Department, which serves a largely black community.
He declined Thursday to discuss the status of those investigations.
His decision to launch a national effort follows his personal visit to Ferguson in the shooting’s aftermath, during which he heard first-hand accounts of the community members’ views of their police force.
"We can't allow these tensions to go unresolved," he said.
According to Andrew C. McCarthy there must be evidence of racial bias and more to open an investigation.
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To justify a federal investigation, the Justice Department must have a rational basis to believe it could prove these invidious and evil purposes beyond a reasonable doubt. That requires compelling evidence, not a farfetched social-justice narrative.
Holder's proposal sounds like a fishing expedition and a violation of states rights.
Could anyone DARE think the Eric Holder himself might be a racist? This is what it looks like.
Let’s face it, this isn’t an investigation, it’s a PR campaign.
He should go to 0bola countries in Africa to show have racis' some diseases are.
There is NO doubt at all, he is a racist.
I wish the Obama administration would pursue ISIS as aggressively as they pursue white cops in this country.
how
Maybe he and Obama want their ISIS buds to make their way in while we are all fighting about whether we have racist cops or not.
It’s a political slush fund designed to pay off some cronies.
Bingo! We have a winner! (as is usual...follow the money!
Good for Holder.
As a libertarian; I hate cops. Cops are scum. All they do is shoot dogs, conduct illegal SWAT raids, and munch donuts.
Cops are today’s Gestapo, they need to be reigned in and so Holder’s efforts to charge them with being racists is exactly what they deserve.
/libertarian rant
The ‘crisis’ being capitalized upon is for the purpose of NATIONALIZING all law enforcement and police and putting them under FEDERAL control.
Think National Police Force, or Civilian Security Force or Gestapo.
That is what the intent of what Holder is doing here now.
You're most likely correct, it'll be interesting to see just who are this consortium of criminal justice experts, I'd wager they're leftists who've supported 0bama.
THEY STAND BETWEEN YOU AND UNLAWFUL DRUG TAKING VIOLENT CRIMINALS.
That’s possible, there has been talk of it from this administration and this could be a step towards doing it.
I agree, hopefully Holder will replace the police we have today with the police force he and Barrack have in mind. And soon.
As a retired cop, I hate libertarians. LMAO @ you.
Yep. The New Black Panthers may not be the citizen militia the Founders envisioned, but in the Obama/Holder NWO...
We get what we get.
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