#doj-civil-rights-probe

#doj-civil-rights-probe

Reifschneider said he tries to think about a moment when he helped someone, even if it's something mundane like pulling up behind a driver who ran out of gas. He's encouraged his fellow police officers to also reflect on a good deed.

Whoever is the target of a particular sticky type of stereotype, particularly a fear-inducing one, you'll see that particular group spike, says hate crime expert Brian Levin. Overall hate-crime incidents fell 11% in 2025 from the previous year, but anti-Latino hate crimes rose 18% to a record 1,014 incidents.

The hacking group appears to have exploited vulnerabilities in a system used by the Los Angeles city attorney's office, enabling the group to make off with nearly 340,000 files.

When was the last time you heard of somebody in New York state being convicted of a killing and getting three to nine years?

U.S. District Judge Charles Simpson issued a one-page ruling Friday throwing out charges against Joshua Jaynes and Kyle Meany, two former officers involved in crafting the Taylor warrant.

Yet while "Abolish ICE" serves as a unifying chant in the streets, Democrats are once again seeking to temper and co-opt people's demands into a narrow version of reform. The demands outlined by Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer could not be more toothless: requiring ICE agents to unmask, wear body cameras, and to follow a code of conduct modeled on other law enforcement agencies.

Harmeet Dhillon, a right-wing activist picked by Trump to be the Department of Justice's Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Rights Division, is one of the more inconspicuously evil forces behind the DOJ's injustice era. Since her nomination in December 2024, she's used her post to go full-send on the president's anti-DEI initiatives, destroy much of the division's former work to uncover instances of unconstitutional policing, and has reconstructed CRT so much so that hundreds of employees left their jobs.

The Justice Department has opened a civil rights probe into Pretti's fatal shooting by federal immigration officers. However, the Trump administration has said there is no need for a similar probe into Good's death. Minnesota officials launched legal steps soon after Pretti's killing in an effort to stake their claim to investigate, including obtaining a search warrant and suing to "vindicate their right to access evidence."

The DOJ's final report, based on an exhaustive FBI investigation, concluded that Wilson had acted reasonably and that his "actions do not constitute prosecutable violations" of federal law. The Justice Department found that Brown had reached into a police SUV and punched and grabbed Wilson. When Wilson drew his gun, Brown "grabbed the weapon and struggled with Wilson to gain control of it."