Over 1,250 former Justice Department officials have signed a letter requesting the agency's Inspector General Michael Horowitz to open an investigation into U.S. Attorney General William Barr by MattRyanPerez
A group of 1,264 former Justice Department officials from both Republican and Democratic administrations have signed a letter requesting the agency's Inspector General Michael Horowitz to open an investigation into U.S. Attorney General William Barr over his involvement in the June 1 action by police to aggressively disperse peaceful protesters near Lafayette Square in Washington DC, as well as the deployment of federal law enforcement officers to quell protests across the country....
"Based on what we now know, these actions violated both the First Amendment of the United States Constitution, which protects freedom of speech and the press, and the right to assemble; and the Fourth Amendment, which prohibits unreasonable seizures, to include objectively unreasonable uses of force by law enforcement officers," the letter from the former officials reads.
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