MSNBC All In With Chris Hayes August 24, 2019 00:07:00
The aegis of the newly created department of justice, one year earlier, they did something they hadn't done before. they start going in the south and prosecuting federal crimes against the klan. the white terrorists in the south were killing and burning and murdering and intimidating. they start prosecuting them in federal court because local courts won't arrest them, won't prosecute them, and local white juries will not convict them. and two things happened. one is they won that battle. they stamped out the klan. for a few decades. and the second is they lost the war. because the enforcement ...
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