MSNBCW The Rachel Maddow Show December 9, 2014
But a lot of what they do is a variant of policing. And as such, they are legally authorized to use force in carrying out their duties. Fbi agents are issued guns by the fbi. But when in the course of their duties an fbi agent uses his or her gun to kill someone, theres this interesting question about who investigates that kind of shooting . Theoretically, any time someone gets shot and killed somewhere in america, the local prosecutor, wherever that happened, can and should investigate that killing. But when it is a federal Law Enforcement officer who did the killing, local prosecutors dont g...