I do care about defendants. I think as a prosecutor, you know, you`re not a minister of punishment, you`re a minister of justice.

This is just one case, and there are hundreds more, and we need to build on the success of this prosecution.

I am glad that they that the federal government, through the DOJ pattern and practice, and even through criminal enforcement of civil rights violations is interested, it makes a big difference.

I received a call quite literally. It was from the attorney general, Keith Ellison, called me.

I would not call today`s verdict justice, however, because justice implies true restoration. But it is accountability, which is the first step towards justice. And now the cause of justice is in your hands.

I would argue that the community expects a degree of independence. The community likes the idea that there are no conflicts, no affinities, no longstanding friendships, no loyalties, that the only thing at issue is justice.

Without any question Merrick Garland`s announcement of DOJ involvement in Minneapolis and in other places is welcome news.

When Jeff Sessions said that he was going to discontinue these -- these consent decrees because of systemic pattern and practice brutality, that actually, I think, accelerated the problem.

I think that, if we have nothing to hide, we shouldn`t worry about what might be found by the international community.

Yes. I think that, if we have nothing to hide, we shouldn`t worry about what might be found by the international community.

I would not call today`s verdict justice, however, because justice implies true restoration. But it is accountability, which is the first step towards justice.