Attorney General Loretta Lynch launches investigation into police brutality in Baltimore.

Courtesy of CNN: 

The Justice Department launched on Friday a pattern or practice investigation into the methods of the Baltimore Police Department, weeks after the death of 25-year-old Freddie Gray. 

Calling police-community relations "one of the most challenging issues of our time," Attorney General Loretta Lynch announced Friday the investigation, which will look into whether the police department has used excessive force and conducted unlawful searches, seizures and arrests, and discriminatory policing practices through the lens of civil rights and constitutional violations. 

She said she launched the investigation at the urging of Baltimore officials and community leaders, and with the support of the Baltimore police union. 

"Our goal is to work with the community, public officials, and law enforcement alike to create a stronger, better Baltimore," Lynch said at a press conference Friday. If violations are found, the investigation will result in a "court-enforceable agreement" to change the practices of the Baltimore Police Department.

This of course follows the DOJ's scathing report on what they found after investigating Ferguson.

I have a feeling that there will be similar findings after this investigation in Baltimore.

Personally I think that if the Department of Justice were to investigate police departments all over the country, that they would find racism brutality, and injustice, in varying degrees, practiced by virtually all of them. 

I did not use to think that was true, but that was before the evidence started showing up in video clips, witness accounts, and e-mails. Now only a blind man could say that he did not see institutional racism in every nook and cranny of our society.