And good evening. We begin tonight with a picture that to many will look like justice.

Former Minneapolis Police Officer Derek Chauvin's booking photo released today, wearing

prison orange, not police blue. He's being held separated for his own safety from the

general population at a maximum security facility where he awaits sentencing.

Yet for all that photo represents, it's neither the final word in his story nor certainly

in the larger one. There'll be sentencing in June for him, the trial of three other officers

in August, and now this.

Today, I am announcing that the Justice Department has opened a civil investigation to determine

whether the Minneapolis Police Department engages in a pattern or practice of unconstitutional

or unlawful policing. Most of our nation's law enforcement officers do their difficult

jobs, honorably and lawfully. I strongly believe that good officers do not want to work in

systems that allow bad practices.

Well, that's so called pattern and practice investigation. We'll look at some of the

same statistics that we reviewed today. The CNN analysis showing that police in Minneapolis

use force against black people at a highly disproportionate rate. In addition to everything

that connected to the George Floyd killing, there's the investigation into the fatal

shooting of Dante Wright just outside the city. His funeral is tomorrow. Right now, tension

is rising in the wake of the fatal police shooting in Columbus, Ohio, the teenage girl.

It happened within minutes of the Shobin verdict, which should be clear up front. Every

incident is unique and not every use of deadly force by police is as clear-cut or as clearly

wrong as it was in the murder of George Floyd.

That said, whatever the final determination on it is, it is clearly a family tragedy and

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