perhaps victims of hate crimes if they are seen as victims of assault. and these types of rash chetting up actions that make it more likely for people to be seen as criminals, even protesters to be seen as criminals are things that really concern us, especially coming from the context of ferguson where we saw that the daily interactions reached such a fever pitch that people responded with outrage. so i hope that the ferguson consent degree process continues to move forward in a reasonable fashion. from what i understand, people in ferguson haven t seen a huge shift as of yet as a result of the attorney general s statements to pull back on the consent decree process. so that s a good sign but i m very concerned about the general tenor that the administration is creating in the country which encourages police brutality. we know that this certainly the action of the doj