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FIRST ON FOX: Arizona GOP Congressman Abe Hamadeh took a triumph thigh connected Wednesday arsenic the Trump Justice Department announced it would disregard the Biden administration's "last minute" lawsuits against respective constabulary departments, including Phoenix.
"Promise made. Promise kept," Hamadeh told Fox News Digital successful a connection aft his efforts to extremity DOJ weaponization against constabulary departments, mostly stemming from the George Floyd riots successful 2020, came to fruition connected Wednesday via an announcement from DOJ.
The DOJ announced connected Wednesday it is scaling backmost "pattern and practice" probes that became prevalent under erstwhile AG Merrick Garland and were slammed by critics who argued the effort was politically motivated and impeded constabulary officers from doing their jobs.
"Today, we are ending the Biden Civil Rights Division's failed experimentation of handcuffing section leaders and constabulary departments with factually unjustified consent decrees," Assistant Attorney General Harmeet K. Dhillon said arsenic the Department of Justice made the announcement.
L - GOP Rep. Abe Hamadeh R - Former President Biden (Getty)
"I promised our instrumentality enforcement officers earlier taking bureau that I would extremity the weaponization of our judicial strategy and enactment with President Trump’s Department of Justice to undo the harm wrought by the Biden Administration."
The Phoenix Police Department was the people of 1 of those oversight investigations successful 2024 erstwhile Biden’s DOJ released a report alleging Civil Rights violations and claimed the section was discriminating against minorities and utilizing excessive force.
That probe has present been rejected by the Justice Department on with probes successful respective different jurisdictions, including Trenton, New Jersey, Memphis, Tennessee, Mount Vernon, New York, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, Minneapolis and the Louisiana State Police.
The Phoenix Police Sergeants and Lieutenants Association (PPSLA) and the Arizona Fraternal Order of Police (FOP) some issued statements praising Hamadeh’s enactment connected the issue.
"The Phoenix Police Sergeants and Lieutenants Association (PPSLA) is grateful to Congressman Abe Hamadeh for keeping his committedness to us," PPSLA President Ben Leuschner said. "While we precise overmuch admit the enactment of everyone who advocated connected our behalf, we cognize that Congressman Hamadeh took the combat to an important level. Today, justness was won for the residents we are sworn to support and service arsenic good arsenic our members."
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L- Abe Hamadeh R - Donald Trump (Abe for Arizona)
"We are grateful that some President Trump and Congressman Hamadeh stood with america against the Biden Administration’s DOJ's flawed probe of the Phoenix Police Department, which has already outgo Phoenix taxpayers millions of dollars and near a demoralized, shrinking constabulary force."
Hamadeh has been starring efforts to propulsion backmost against the Biden DOJ’s established practices connected oversight for constabulary departments and precocious met with FBI Director Kash Patel to "discuss the Biden Administration’s targeted attacks connected our men and women successful blue", his bureau said successful a property release.
"I americium grateful to President Trump and his squad of patriotic professionals dedicated to the men and women of our section instrumentality enforcement agencies who tally to the dependable of information to support our communities harmless and secure," Hamadeh said.
Hamadeh added, "As I noted successful my communications with Trump Administration officials, our officers did everything right, voluntarily cooperating successful bully faith, opening their records, and participating successful lengthy interviews. They were met with stonewalling, mischaracterized testimony, and a last study riddled with glaring inaccuracies."
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Attorney General Pam Bondi speaks to reporters extracurricular the White House, Wednesday, May 7, 2025, successful Washington. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)
An advisor to FBI manager Patel told Fox News Digital that "Director Kash Patel has made it wide that nether his leadership, the FBI stands firmly with the brave men and women who support our communities."
"Overbroad constabulary consent decrees divest section power of policing from communities wherever it belongs, turning that powerfulness implicit to unelected and unaccountable bureaucrats, often with an anti-police agenda," Dhillon said successful a connection Wednesday.
Fox News Digital reached retired to Biden's bureau for comment.
"As president of the Arizona Fraternal Order of Police, and connected behalf of the full membership, I privation to convey Congressman Hamadeh for his unwavering support," Arizona Fraternal Order of Police President Paul Sheldon said successful effect to the news. "We look guardant to partnering with the Congressman successful the aboriginal connected our shared extremity of keeping our communities safe."
Andrew Mark Miller is simply a newsman astatine Fox News. Find him connected Twitter @andymarkmiller and email tips to AndrewMark.Miller@Fox.com.
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