Arkansas Attorney General suddenly mum about fatal ATF raid

By Lee Williams

Arkansas Attorney General Tim Griffin touts a new mobile health clinic during a press conference he held in Little Rock April 15. (Screenshot courtesy Arkansas Office of the Attorney General.)by Lee WilliamsArkansas Attorney General Tim Griffin is the top law enforcement officer in the state, and he is ultimately responsible for safeguarding the lives and civil rights of the more than 3.5 million Arkansans who call The Natural State home.After the ATF shot and killed 53-year-old airport executive Bryan Malinowski in his home during a botched SWAT raid, Griffin had questions about the ATF’s use of force, which Malinowski’s family and most everyone else said was excessive. Griffin publicly called on ATF to release the videos from their bodycams, stating “information from a camera helps fill the vacuum of conspiracy and all this other stuff.”“Look, this is bizarre that there’s just been silence. I understand there’s a state investigation going on with it, but there’s nothing about this footage that should stop it from being released,” Griffin told the local media.However, a story published last week revealed that ATF agents wore no bodycams March 19 during their fatal raid, and since then, Griffin — not unlike the ATF agents he

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