Holder defends DOJ’s Ferguson investigation

Holder, who sat down for an interview with CNN at the U.S. Department of Justice headquarters on Thursday in Washington, said the criticism he received from some corners for his handling of the Ferguson situation was unfair, especially those who said Holder played too much of an activist role.

“One has to remember what the situation was like in Ferguson when I went out there. Street disruptions, nightly riots almost that were occurring,” he said. “It was a high risk thing for the president and I to decide for me to go out there and see if I might have a calming influence. I think if you see what happened after I left Ferguson, the situation changed and changed pretty dramatically, so I think that was an appropriate thing to do.”

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