The craziest thing is that I think sometimes white people,

particularly in these situations,

they've got this crazy mix in their head of racialized suspicion.

And then white liberal guilt,

yes, where they don't want to say a thing because then it's like,

oh, I'm a suspicious white person or racist, but then they call the cops.

And by calling the cops, you've, like, you've thrown a grenade,

you've thrown a grenade and you didn't need to.

Hello, and welcome to why is this happening with me, your host, Chris Hayes.

We've been living through a period recently where two things are happening simultaneously.

I think they're sort of interestingly, intentionally, each other.

One is that, and this is true of me on my show.

So I want to just be very clear.

Liberals have come to see prosecutors as important figures.

And maybe not come to them.

Maybe they always did.

But the idea of the kind of savior prosecutor or the valiant prosecutor

who's going to catch powerful people in the midst of lawlessness

is something that has been hanging over our heads during the 22 months of our

mother. And you hear all the time, this guy's a prosecutor's prosecutor.

He's an amazing prosecutor.

And the idea being that a real important liberal ideal here,

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