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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Fri Dec 23, 2016, 02:03 PM Dec 2016

DOJ Weighing Civil Rights Inquiry Into Deaths At Sheriff Clarke's Wisconsin Jail

Source: Talking Points Memo

By ALLEGRA KIRKLAND Published DECEMBER 23, 2016, 12:00 PM EST

The Department of Justice is considering launching a federal civil rights probe of the Milwaukee jail overseen by prominent Donald Trump ally Sheriff David Clarke, the Huffington Post reported Thursday.

Rep. Gwen Moore (D-WI) asked the DOJ’s Civil Rights decision to investigate practices at the Milwaukee County Jail in early December following news reports that found that four people died at the jail since April, including a newborn and a man with mental health problems who perished from thirst.

Moore announced on Twitter this week that the DOJ responded to her request.

Gwen Moore ✔
@RepGwenMoore

#BreakingNews @TheJusticeDept told me they're considering pattern/practice investigation into tragedies at @SheriffClarke's #MKE County Jail

4:30 PM - 21 Dec 2016 · Washington, DC
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“We will carefully consider your letter along with other information we may receive regarding Milwaukee County Jail in order to determine whether a pattern or practice investigation may be necessary,” Assistant Attorney General Peter J. Kadzik wrote in a Dec. 15 letter to Moore obtained by HuffPost.

Read more: http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/justice-department-considering-investigation-deaths-sheriff-clarke-milwaukee-jail
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DOJ Weighing Civil Rights Inquiry Into Deaths At Sheriff Clarke's Wisconsin Jail (Original Post) DonViejo Dec 2016 OP
Better hurry yeoman6987 Dec 2016 #1
Yeah. ..I don't have my hopes up unfortunately. Kittycow Dec 2016 #2
So a member of Congress sends them a letter truebluegreen Dec 2016 #3
When we (our law firm) requested Eric Holder to revoke BP's probation after the Dustlawyer Dec 2016 #5
I agree completely with everything you said. truebluegreen Dec 2016 #6
Don't forget Snoopy 7 Dec 2016 #4
 

truebluegreen

(9,033 posts)
3. So a member of Congress sends them a letter
Fri Dec 23, 2016, 07:55 PM
Dec 2016

and they respond that they will look into it...as we countdown to the inauguration of the Big Cheezwhiz.

Be nice if we had had a DoJ, lo, these last 8 years that actually cared about justice and civil rights. It's a tad late for that now.

Dustlawyer

(10,499 posts)
5. When we (our law firm) requested Eric Holder to revoke BP's probation after the
Sat Dec 24, 2016, 10:29 AM
Dec 2016

Deepwater Horizon explosion and oil leak, we gave him all of the pertinent documents from the BP Texas City, TX plant explosion that killed 15 and injured 6,000. In that case BP had submitted a fraudulent permit application indicating they had installed a flare in the unit that started the explosion. Had they actually had a flare it would not have blown. They then hired the employee at the Texas Comm on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) who was reviewing the fraudulent permit to redraft and submit in violation of federal law (the was not allowed to work on this in private practice since he had been working on it for the government. We successfully pushed this issue to get felony charges filed to which BP later pled guilty to.

Holder and his team met with us twice and then let BP off probation retroactively to before the Deepwater Horizon explosion. They failed to investigate and charge the company and its employees for the crimes that they committed. We should have said they were smoking pot while they did it and maybe we would have gotten justice!

The media has not reported what really happened with this terrible disaster and what BP has done to unfairly influence the litigation. That is because BP started advertising very heavily (the payoff). Our country is more corrupt than any third world country because most of us do not believe it.

We allow legal bribery of our elected officials who serve and represent TPTB instead of "We the People." Both Parties are co-opted by all of the money swirling around Washington. The media, the 4th estate, which is supposed to be the check on corruption and abuse of power is owned by TPTB.

We need to attack the root problem that is causing most of our other problems, the money in our politics. Until we admit that our Party is just as culpable, we will not have anything get better, only worse!

 

truebluegreen

(9,033 posts)
6. I agree completely with everything you said.
Sat Dec 24, 2016, 05:09 PM
Dec 2016

I live in a wholly corrupt third-world country, but at least I know that and so does everyone else. To see my fellow Americans whine and snivel and complain about the locals ("that would never happen in the US!) is embarrassing, especially since the truth is all too apparent, especially now.

One good thing about Trump is that the Republican facade has been stripped off. Moral majority? Fiscal conservatives? Individual freedoms? Hah.

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