The federal civil rights investigation into Garner’s killing by NYPD officer Daniel Pantaleo was apparently slowed down by disputes between FBI investigators and Justice Department prosecutors over whether or not to bring charges against the involved officers. 

“BPD … uses enforcement strategies that unlawfully subject African Americans to disproportionate rates of stops, searches and arrests.”

The parish coroner William “Beau” Clark says this is the first time a judge has sealed a report from his office.

The department is pushing state judges to do their part to end the practice of jailing the poor.