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Arizona GOP Congressman Abe Hamadeh took a victory lap as the Trump Justice Department announced it what called politically motivated and weaponized investigations into police departments.

Federal investigators spent years probing the city of Phoenix and its police department before delivering blistering findings of civil rights abuses last June. Now, the Justice Department is clawing those findings back.

A Department of Justice report found that the Phoenix Police Department systematically used unlawful force and violated the rights of various groups. With the DOJ investigation shelved ...