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.

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.

PHOENIX — While city leaders largely support the DOJ’s decision to close its investigation into the Phoenix Police Department and retract its previous findings of constitutional violations, some members of the community are disappointed and are still pushing for change in the police department.

The vote to increase police funding came the same day the Department of Justice announced it is ending its investigation into Phoenix police.

Trump DOJ is abandoning efforts for court-approved settlements with Minneapolis and Louisville after finding they'd violated civil rights of Black people.