ALTHOUGH PEOPLE ARE RIGHTFULLY FOCUSING ON JEFF SESSIONS'S
COMMENTS ON INTERFERING WITH LEGALIZATION OF MARIJUANA, HE
COMMENTED ON OTHER THINGS AS WELL THAT WERE A LITTLE SCARY.
JUST ONE SECTION, HE SAID --
RIGHT THERE, WHAT YOU ARE SEEING, IS THE FIRST HINT THAT
PEOPLE'S CHIEF PROBLEM WITH JEFF SESSIONS, OUR BIGGEST FEAR ABOUT
WHAT HE MIGHT REPRESENT AS THE A.G., IS THAT HE COULD INTERFERE
IN THE ONGOING PROCESS OF TRYING TO GET SOMETHING APPROACHING
JUSTICE OUT OF THE BRUTALIZATION OF DIFFERENT COMMUNITIES,
ESPECIALLY AFRICAN-AMERICANS IN HIGH PROFILE CASES IN THE PAST
FEW YEARS.
HERE HE IS SAYING, WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT THIS
WHOLE THING?
I FEEL LIKE WE DON'T HAVE ENOUGH RESPECT FOR THE COPS, I
THINK WE ARE MAKING IT TOO HARD FOR THE COPS, BLUE LIVES
MATTER AND WE NEED TO BACK OFF.
THAT IS WHAT HE'S SAYING AND IT HAS CONSEQUENCES.
IT DOES.
SO IN THE FUTURE AS MORE AND MORE CASES COME UP
REGARDING POLICE BRUTALITY AND SYSTEMIC ISSUES WITHIN VARIOUS
POLICE DEPARTMENTS THROUGHOUT THE COUNTRY, IT IS UNLIKELY THAT THE
JUSTICE DEPARTMENT UNDER THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION WOULD DO
ITS OWN INDEPENDENT INVESTIGATION OF THESE POLICE
DEPARTMENTS AND MAKE SURE JUSTICE IS SERVED.
SO MOVING
FORWARD IN THIS ADMINISTRATION IT WILL BE AN ISSUE.
HOWEVER
THERE IS A LITTLE BIT OF HOPE WHEN IT COMES TO PREVIOUS
NEGOTIATIONS THAT THE JUSTICE DEPARTMENT HAD MADE WITH POLICE
DEPARTMENTS UNDER THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION.
WHEN TRUMP GOT
ELECTED, POLICE DEPARTMENTS WHO HAD MADE THESE AGREEMENTS WITH
THE JUSTICE DEPARTMENT TO REFORM THEIR DEPARTMENTS WERE LIKE, OH,
MAYBE WE CAN RENEGE ON SOME OF THESE NEGOTIATIONS, MAYBE WE CAN
SAY THAT WE DON'T WANT TO DO THESE THINGS, WE DON'T WANT TO
REFORM OUR DEPARTMENT, AND TRUMP WILL DO US A SOLID.
BUT THE BEST
PART ABOUT ALL OF THAT IS THAT FEDERAL JUDGES ARE GETTING
INVOLVED AND THEY ARE LIKE, NO.
BECAUSE FEDERAL JUDGES ARE
INVOLVED IN RULING WHETHER OR NOT THEY CAN CHANGE SOME OF THE
NEGOTIATIONS THEY HAD PREVIOUSLY MADE.
SO THE JUDGES ARE SAYING,
NO, THESE NEGOTIATIONS, THESE AGREEMENTS WILL REMAIN INTACT,
AND THEY CAN'T CHANGE IT.
SO ANY PROGRESS THAT WAS MADE UNDER THE
OBAMA ADMINISTRATION WILL REMAIN IN PLACE, I WANT TO GIVE
YOU THE FULL STORY.
THAT IS A GOOD SILVER LINING BUT I'M STILL
INCREDIBLY PESSIMISTIC.
YOU SHOULD BE.
THE NEGOTIATIONS ALREADY DONE WITH BALTIMORE AND CHICAGO,
THOSE MIGHT BE CARRIED OUT AND CONTINUED -- I SEE THE CURRENT
STATE OF NEGOTIATIONS WITH THOSE CITIES AS BABY STEPS, PATCHING
IN SOME OF THE CRACKS.
BUT THE PROBLEM IS THAT LEAVES TONS OF
OTHER CITIES WITH MAJOR PROBLEMS BETWEEN THE POLICE AND THEIR
CONSTITUENTS THAT HAVEN'T BEEN ADDRESSED, AND FURTHER EFFORTS
WE NEED TO UNDERTAKE IN THOSE CITIES.
OF COURSE AT THE STATE
LEVEL AND THE CITY LEVEL PROGRESS CAN STILL BE MADE, AND
HOPEFULLY POLITICIANS WILL PUT PRESSURE ON THESE POLICE
DEPARTMENTS TO REFORM.
BUT OVER THE PAST EIGHT YEARS UNDER
OBAMA, SLOWLY AT THE START, ADMITTEDLY, THERE WAS PRESSURE
AT THE TOP, AND ERIC HOLDER DID GET INVOLVED AND THERE WERE SOME
INDEPENDENT INVESTIGATIONS OF SOME OF THESE SHOOTINGS THAT
STATES AND CITIES DIDN'T WANT TO UNDERTAKE.
AND DESPITE THAT WE
STILL HAD VERY LITTLE PROGRESS.
UP UNTIL RIGHT NOW, WE STILL
HAVE COPS WHO CAN SHOOT PEOPLE BASICALLY IN COLD BLOOD AND THEY
WALK FREE.
THERE IS ALMOST NEVER JUSTICE IN THAT REGARD.
BUT WE
WERE STARTING TO GET SOME THINGS, INVESTIGATIONS OF THE
VANS THAT WERE USED TO SHAKE UP OR INJURE OR KILL SUSPECTS, BODY
CAMERAS STARTING TO SPREAD, THERE WERE RUMBLINGS OF
POSSIBLE CIVILIAN-LED POLICE DEPARTMENTS IN SOME AREAS, THAT
CAN CONTINUE BUT WE HAVE KNEE- CAPPED THAT EFFORT.
SO NOW
BECAUSE OF PROGRESS TO SOME EXTENT BEING DRIVEN FROM THE
TOP, WE WILL HAVE ROADBLOCKS SET UP BY PEOPLE LIKE JEFF SESSIONS
WHO WILL DO WHATEVER THEY CAN TO KEEP THINGS EXACTLY THE SAME.
AND THIS IS WHY LETTING SOMEONE LIKE DONALD TRUMP BECOME
PRESIDENT IS SUCH A DISAPPOINTMENT, BECAUSE WE WERE
SEEING PROGRESS, SEEING IT EVERY YEAR, AND WE JUST SET THAT
BACK
BIGLY.
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