Is Trump's Justice Department capable of investigating the Ahmaud Arbery shooting?

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Editorial: Is Trump's Justice Department capable of a fair investigation into the Ahmaud Arbery shooting? (via latimesopinion)

The U.S. Department of Justice has stepped into the Ahmaud Arbery case, announcing on Monday that it would consider hate crime charges in the killing of the unarmed African American man in Georgia on Feb. 25. Georgia’s attorney general also has asked the Justice Department to review state and local officials’ handling of their investigations in the case. And the department would be well within its purview to consider civil rights charges.

Justice Department intervention would once have been deemed virtually automatic in such a case: an unarmed black man chased down and killed in a Southern state by two white men, one of whom, Gregory McMichael, is a former police officer and prosecutor’s investigator. The situation brings to mind a legacy of lynching and vigilantism, and the blurry line that separates those extra-legal practices from citizen “policing.

 

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