where does it end?

http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/10/16/jena.six.ap/index.html

What, pray tell, was the federal response to this case supposed to be? How exactly is the hateful action of noosing hangings (without victims) in one place inextricably connected to another similar act halfway across the country? And more importantly, how could government have prevented the secondary ripple effects? The fact that racial animosity and hatred exist in separate and independent places is not the federal government's fault nor is it under any obligation to attack this problem. It does appear there were irregularities in how the cases have been handled. It does appear the actual court cases however are not suspect. A young man under prior convictions requiring probationary circumstances who is involved in a beating and assault does sound to me like someone who needs further legal scrutiny and isolationary punishment. His racial heritage does not factor into the facts that his actions appear to be brutal and openly violent. That he may have been whipped into a racial frenzy by the overt actions of racist teens does not excuse his actions. So I reiterate, what was the federal government to do in this case that was done differently on the local levels.