• Neato
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    Wait, the feds can DO that?! This whole time this was a possibility? I don’t see allegations of cross-state crimes there, just hate speech and hate crimes. So y’know, average copping. And this is the first time I’ve heard about the FBI actually holding state cops to account? wtf…

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      Mississippi Burning, although largely viewed as patriarchal now because it leaves out lots of the black Americans that repeatedly pushed and pushed and pushed and were beaten, burned, lynched, and cancelled for equal civil rights, was about the FBI busting dirty southern cops and judges.