Ep. 744 - Why I've lost the little bit of confidence I had in Joe Biden's DOJ.
The Breakdown with Shaun King
The North Star
4.8 • 12.6K Ratings
🗓️ 23 January 2023
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
But when he appointed Merrick Garland, a bland, moderate, conservative white man who has always lacked the courage for bold moves on police violence and mass incarceration, it was clear that those things were not true priorities for Joe Biden Biden.
And here we are, in year 3 of their administration, and next to nothing has been done. A few cases have been prosecuted here and there, but the 2 cases the DOJ most famously filed charges for, of the murders of George Floyd and Ahmaud Arbery, had literally already been successfully prosecuted in Minnesota and Georgia.
I've formally submitted lists of HUNDREDS of cases from the 1950s until today and this DOJ continues to ignore them all.
Listen, it's not that I'm surprised, but I am frustrated and disappointed that we continue to get damn near the same shit on issues of police violence no matter who we elect.
Let me unpack and explain it.
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| 0:30.3 | I never really had much faith in Joe Biden's DOJ. |
| 0:35.3 | Once he decided to appoint Merrick Garland as his attorney general, |
| 0:41.3 | a moderate to conservative, |
| 0:44.3 | bland man who has lacked courage for a big chunk of his career, |
| 0:50.3 | once he appointed Merrick Garland to that position, |
| 0:53.3 | most of us who care deeply about civil rights and human rights |
| 0:58.3 | knew there really wouldn't be any radical change there, |
| 1:01.3 | any radical accountability, |
| 1:03.3 | even though Joe Biden was really elected to office, |
| 1:07.3 | off of the momentum of the Black Lives Matter movement of 2020. |
| 1:12.3 | Here we are, hundreds and hundreds of cases that the DOJ refuses to do anything about, |
| 1:19.3 | and what little faith and confidence I had in this DOJ, |
| 1:24.3 | I don't have it anymore. |
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