NEW: Justice Dept. says it will consider a request by Georgia's attorney general to review the shooting death of Ahmaud Arbery and assess whether federal hate crime charges should be pursued in the high-profile case.
"We are committed to a complete and transparent review of how the Ahmaud Arbery case was handled from the outset," Carr said Sunday."The family, the community and the state of Georgia deserve answers, and we will work with others in law enforcement at the state and federal level to find those answers."
The first prosecutor on the case, Jackie Johnson, of the Brunswick Judicial Circuit, recused herself because of ties with Gregory McMichael, who was an investigator in her office before he retired in May 2019.Then, a second prosecutor, George Barnhill, of the Waycross Judicial District, also recused himself in April after it was revealed that his son works in the district attorney's office in Brunswick, where Gregory McMichael was employed.
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