This Week at Justice - October 21, 2022

The Justice Department will continue to be relentless in our efforts to hold accountable perpetrators of war crimes and other atrocities in Ukraine. We are committed to finding ways to expand our cooperation with our German partners in these efforts. We discussed those today and we are committed to continuing to work closely with our international partners to defend democracy and to uphold the rule of law. Today's charges and guilty pleas should make clear that when companies and their executives engage in conduct that threatens our national security, in this case by fueling violent terrorist organizations, the department will respond with resolve. It's all that you do for our communities. We see all that you risk for them. We understand enormous stress that you are under and we appreciate the immense dangers that you face. Policies that prohibit Native Americans from accessing public places are patently offensive, racially discriminatory, and have no place in our society today. These defendants have resorted to conduct akin to the kind of policies that were instituted during the Jim Crow era. By putting in place a policy that renders Native Americans second-class citizens, defendants have clearly run afoul of our public accommodations law.