Via The Hill:

Attorney General Eric Holder said Thursday that “few things” have affected him as much as his visit to Ferguson, Mo., the community where an unarmed black teenager was shot by a police officer earlier this month.

Reflecting upon his visit to the community, where nightly protests have continued since the shooting, Holder told reporters it was “clear” the shooting had “brought to the surface underlying tensions that have existed for many years.”

But Holder expressed certainty that the community can have “confidence” in the investigation the federal government is conducting of the shooting incident.