Attorney General Eric Holder said Monday that the there should be a “fulsome review” of the reported shooting of an unarmed black man in the suburbs of St. Louis by police.
Holder’s statement follows the FBI beginning their investigation into possible civil rights violations over the shooting of 18-year-old Michael Brown.
Holder said FBI agents are working with the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division and the U.S. Attorney’s Office had opened a concurrent federal inquiry.
Read Holder’s full statement below:
The shooting incident in Ferguson, Missouri, this weekend deserves a fulsome review. In addition to the local investigation already underway, FBI agents from the St. Louis field office, working together with attorneys from the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division and the U.S. Attorney’s Office, have opened a concurrent, federal inquiry. The federal investigation will supplement, rather than supplant, the inquiry by local authorities. At every step, we will work with the local investigators, who should be prepared to complete a thorough, fair investigation in their own right. I will continue to receive regular updates on this matter in the coming days. Aggressively pursuing investigations such as this is critical for preserving trust between law enforcement and the communities they serve.
I hope he misspoke—
“Fulsome” means “flattering to an excessive degree.”
Even its secondary meaning—of large size or quantity—is inappropriate.
I was about to go off on him for misusing “fulsome,” but it looks like some of the dictionaries have given up the good fight and acquiesced in the misuse as a second meaning.
And JFC lawyers in particular have a major penchant for misusing the word that way. Makes me fucking crazy.
Almost as crazy as people who say “tact” when they mean “tack.”
But the banksters who bilked us out of billions, why, don’t ask — because if you do, you might wreck the economy in the mere asking. What a stooge.
You missed the legal reference to fulsome:
Here it is used in a sentence; “Additionally, detainees must have fulsome procedures that allow them to test the legality of their detention.”
“encompassing all aspects; comprehensive” and it is listed as fourth in my dictionary.
Thanks—I didn’t know there was a particular legal usage for that word.