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In reply to the discussion: Not Good Enough, Bernie [View all]Jamastiene
(38,187 posts)and started charging some of these out of control, militarized cops who are killing innocent, unarmed black children? Those are some major civil rights violations happening. Does the federal government not have the authority to enforce civil rights laws?
When local/state governments are clearly in a conflict of interest with the local cops who are killing these unarmed children, it seems like the best thing to do would be let the feds step in and bring federal civil rights violations charges against them. Instead, the federal government stepped in and investigated, then made suggestions and left it at that. I thought, for sure, they would do more than just that. That was a travesty of justice, imo.
Why isn't the Executive Branch of the federal government arresting these cops? Isn't that how it works? The Executive Branch does the arresting and hands them over to the Judicial Branch to deal with whatever violations of the law they may have committed. It is not like we have a Republican president right now. This stuff is happening under President Obama's watch and nothing is getting done about it. If being president of the US doesn't give Obama the authority to enforce federal civil rights laws, what would?