Federal probe urged of Black Lives Matter protest killing after Texas pardon

The attorneys general of more than a dozen states urged the U.S. Justice Department on Wednesday to open a federal criminal civil rights probe into the shooting death of a Black Lives Matter protester whose killer was pardoned two weeks ago by Texas Governor Greg Abbott.
In their letter calling for an investigation, the attorneys general, all of them Democrats, challenged the propriety of the Texas “stand your ground” law cited by Abbott, a Republican, as the basis for his act of clemency.
The attorneys general of more than a dozen states urged the U.S. Justice Department on Wednesday to open a federal criminal civil rights probe into the shooting death of a Black Lives Matter protester whose killer was pardoned two weeks ago by Texas Governor Greg Abbott.
In their letter calling for an investigation, the attorneys general, all of them Democrats, challenged the propriety of the Texas “stand your ground” law cited by Abbott, a Republican, as the basis for his act of clemency.