That memo also stopped the volunteer organizational assessments that Chief Hawkins talked about in Fayetteville.

I am here for White people and Black people and any other people that are victims of excessive force.

We are not anti-police. We are anti-police brutality.

This Committee needs to investigate why incoming Attorney General Sessions...withheld and removed this designation.

This is not what America should be about.

This idea that we heard from the Department of Justice that we will not author any report that is critical of law enforcement is, quite frankly, a disservice to law enforcement.

It is also critical that we not paint law enforcement with a broad brush.

Unless the Federal Government steps in and deals with Federal standards and Federal laws, we will be subjected to the local politics.

We must define--when we look at Gwen Carr, 5 years waiting on a decision from the Federal Government.

We need to have Federal law that sets various unimpugned standards that will be followed.

I strongly disagree with the White House's assertion of absolute immunity.

It is certainly the case that conversations about criminal actions are not official White House business, without question.