Attorney General Eric Holder visited Ferguson, Missouri, and spoke at the Florissant Valley Community College, where he told of his experiences being racially profiled. “I think about my time in Georgetown – a nice neighborhood of Washington – and I am running to a picture movie at about eight o'clock at night. I am running with my cousin. Police car comes driving up, flashes his lights, yells ‘Where you going? Hold it!’ I say ‘Whoa, I’m going to a movie.’ Now my cousin started mouthing off. I’m like, ‘This is not where we want to go. Keep quiet.’ I’m angry and upset. We negotiate the whole thing and we walk to our movie. At the time that he stopped me, I was a federal prosecutor. I wasn’t a kid. I was a federal prosecutor. I worked at the United States Department of Justice. So I’ve confronted this myself.” While Holder’s empathetic words may have helped to finally bring relative peace Wednesday night, he should not be inserting his feelings into every racial flashpoint. His job is to enforce the law, not sympathize with those who break it. More…

Update: In a press conference back in Washington, Holder said, “This attorney general and this Department of Justice stands with the people of Ferguson.” What about Officer Darren Wilson? How will he get a fair hearing if the AG has so politicized this?