On May 14, the ACLU joined the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights and more than 100 other partner organizations asking DOJ to open a full and thorough hate crimes investigation into the horrific killing of Ahmaud Arbery. The letter also calls for a federal civil rights pattern or practice investigation into the local district attorneys, including the Office of the District Attorney of the Brunswick Judicial Circuit and the Office of the District Attorney of the Waycross Judicial Circuit, as well as of the Glynn County Police Department, for systemic constitutional abuses.