Josh Shapiro
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I've had these investigations.
They're incredibly difficult.
And sometimes a law enforcement official is charged and sometimes they're not.
What I guarantee you is in any scenario, someone is disappointed.
But what the hope is...
If you're doing this work honestly and with integrity, the hope is that people at least respect the process and respect that it came to a just outcome, even if they disagree with it.
By the federal government and J.D.
Vance gaslighting the community, they're further eroding that trust.
They're making it more difficult for this community to get answers and to heal.
And I think that's a very dangerous thing for our communities.
Sure.
And look, I'm obviously not an expert on Minnesota law.
I can tell you that here in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, and I would presume it would follow a similar track in Minnesota, it would be up to the local prosecutor or potentially the state attorney general to follow through on this, to conduct the investigation.
And typically, when you're leading the investigation, as I did as Attorney General, the first thing you do is bring law enforcement together from every level to share information, to make sure you've got everything on the table.
You look at every angle of every piece of evidence, and then you take that evidence and you apply the law.
In this case, it would be Minnesota law that would be the applicable law.
And then that prosecutor would make a determination
as to whether or not to charge.
And so in this case, I would presume that Minnesota state authorities would retain that jurisdiction and would go forward in analyzing the evidence.
It is made more difficult when the federal government