What is the Federal violation in the Duke LAX case? These guys have not been convicted of anything --- they are simply charged.
"So when did the cops beat these guys up?"
They certainly beat up the cook in Raleigh and arrested the Somali immigrant as part of a frame-up.
And Olateyo is certainly involved with Victor Bout, the Russian arms (and probably drug) smuggler;and the Central Bank of Gambia (a country where a lot of the smuggling airlines operate from); and Brian Taylor is certainly the stepston of Ambulai Johnson, the Interior Minister of Liberia.
And that's a lot of strange people to be turning up in Durham, NC.
And the CIA certainly flies its ghost air force out of NC; and those planes don't always return empty.
And the government for years sure has tried not to investigate Durham.
You don't have to be convicted in order for the feds to step in. There is no rule that says civil rights violations can only be investigated by the DOJ when the subject of the violations has been convicted of a crime. Violations of civil rights perpetrated under color of authority take place when government authority is abused in such a way that an individual's constitutional right(s) have been abridged.
There is also nothing that requires such violations only take place in the form of cops beating somebody beyond necessary force.