News Item
"NBC News" featured Pace Law School professor Randolph McLaughlin in "Decision not to charge NYPD officer in Eric Garner case exposes DOJ divide"
"NBC News" featured Pace Law School professor Randolph McLaughlin in "Decision not to charge NYPD officer in Eric Garner case exposes DOJ divide"
...Randolph McLaughlin, a civil rights lawyer and Pace Law School professor, said he found it "highly unusual" that Donoghue and Barr would come to a different conclusion than the Civil Rights Division.
But, he added, the Trump administration has made it clear that it won't hold police departments accountable for civil rights violations as vigorously as Obama's Justice Department had.
"This administration has put its thumb on the scale for police departments across the country," McLaughlin said. "Where there's a chance that a police officer acted inappropriately, this Justice Department has turned a blind eye in their favor."
Read the full article.
