Prosecutor accuses DOJ of blocking investigation into death of student shot 59 times

[EleanorR]

ATLANTA — A Georgia prosecutor is suing the U.S. Department of Justice over its refusal to provide information about how officers shot 59 bullets into a schizophrenic college student.

Fulton County District Attorney Paul Howard said Friday that federal authorities have blocked his prosecutors from interviewing the officers who killed Jamarion Robinson, 26.

Howard said the federal agency has also stymied his investigation of the 2016 killing by refusing to turn over any documents, despite numerous requests during the past two years under the federal Freedom of Information Act.

"We've never done anything like this," he said of the lawsuit. "Our hope was that the federal authorities would cooperate and provide this office and this family with all the information about this incident. I cannot understand why they have not done it."

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/crime-courts/prosecutor-accuses-doj-blocking-investigation-death-student-shot-59-times-n952816

WTH

[brush]

1. I checked the link and of course the victim was black.

[spanone]

2. Trump's Injustice Department

[McCamy Taylor]

3. One of the officers also works for the fed,

This is the obvious answer. Might even have been put in place as part of a DOJ sting aimed at the local police. There is no other reason the DOJ would stall in this matter.

[cstanleytech]

4. Oh there can be plenty of reasons for stalling it from good ones to bad ones.

Good one for example would be that they are looking at federal charges against some of the officers with a bad one being they are trying to protect one or more of the officers because they are related to someone higher up in the government or someone very wealthy.