WASHINGTON – In remarks today at the U.S. Justice Department, Attorney General Eric Holder Jr. called Saturday’s shooting in Arizona an “unspeakable tragedy” and said threats and acts of violence against public officials continue to be a source of concern.
Holder, in a speech celebrating the life of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., said the gunfire that critically injured Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and killed Chief Judge John Roll, along with five others, was a “senseless and shameful” act that shows “our world has yet to run its course of cruelty.”
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