But I think everybody sees what the real problem is here, which is that repeat violent criminal offenders that scream at judges that I don't belong in civilized society.

I will murder and kill and maim and harm and offend again.

Continue to be put on the street.

The floor is yours.

Well, look, it's a very tragic what happened in this jurisdiction.

It's the kind of thing that you're seeing happening all over the United States. And from the federal civil rights perspective, my

angle is whether there's discrimination occurring by local law enforcement in how they treat

offenders. And so, for example, in Hennepin County, Minnesota, we're investigating their blatant policy, which says that

they will give preferential plea agreements to people of color. That's illegal under the law. I don't

know whether Charlotte has a similar problem. It may be the case, and we'd love for people with evidence

to come forward, whistleblowers

to come forward, if they are treating offenders of a particular race more leniently than,

say, white offenders, that would be a federal civil rights violation.

But we need that evidence before we can take action at the DOJ.

To the broader point of whether the federal government can impose sort of sentencing

strictures on state court judges, and typically speaking in our federalism and 10th Amendment

analysis division of power, most of the police power in the United States, and that means

all the government power really lies with the states and with localities. What the federal

government can do, however, is tie federal grants and federal law enforcement support, which is

significant to basic minimum standards of performance.

And so I think that's something that certainly could be looked at by policymakers.

And so, you know, you do have to look from a federalism perspective as to whether a federal

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