'Sad!' Jasmine Crockett rips Pam Bondi after threat over conservatives' 'hurt feelings'

Rep. Jamine Crockett (D-TX) lashed out Monday at Attorney General Pam Bondi's threats to prosecute people for "hate speech" in the wake of conservative activist Charlie Kirk's murder.

Bondi claimed during an interview with Katie Miller on her eponymous podcast on Monday that the Department of Justice will investigate people who criticized Charlie Kirk after his assassination.

“There’s free speech and then there’s hate speech, and there is no place, especially now, especially after what happened to Charlie, in our society...We will absolutely target you, go after you, if you are targeting anyone with hate speech,” Bondi said in the interview.

Crockett responded to those claims on Tuesday during an appearance on CNN's "The Arena" with Kasie Hunt.

"If there's anything this DOJ and this FBI director need to be doing, they need to be surveilling online to figure out who the potential real threats are," Crockett said.

She mentioned that Kirk's killer appeared to be active online ahead of the shooting, but FBI officials were unable to identify him ahead of the attack. That is similar to the events that unfolded ahead of the shooting in Evergreen, Colorado, Crocckett said.

"That tells you how adequate they are at their jobs right now," Crockett continued. "I don't put this on the men and women of the FBI, but on the leadership who decided to divert at least 20% of the FBI resources to pet projects of this president."

"Maybe we should focus on policing the speech that is more than just speech, but it is leading to actual deaths, instead of just looking at whatever hurts the feelings of conservatives."