Black DOJ Enforcers Call on Minority Law Students to Prosecute

Senior Black Justice Department prosecutors made an impassioned pitch to minority law students to overcome reservations of enlisting in an institution they may not trust.

“I’ll acknowledge that there are challenges in the criminal justice system. We’ve seen issues of disparities with respect to race,” Breon Peace, the US attorney in Brooklyn, told a Howard University Law School event on Wednesday. “We’ve seen police violence. We’ve seen a lot of things that make us skeptical that the system can work.”

“My view was I wanted to opt into the system, participate in the system, and try to do my part ...