# U.S. Attorney Damian Williams's Investiture Speech (SDNY)

**Source URL:** https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/speech/us-attorney-damian-williamss-investiture-speech
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**Document date:** 2021-11-19 (date shown on the page: Friday, November 19, 2021)
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**Page title:** U.S. Attorney Damian Williams's Investiture Speech
**Page date:** Friday, November 19, 2021

Verbatim passage returned: "I owe it to the people who paved this path to do my job with excellence; to be fiercely independent of politics; to do equal justice under the law for all people, no matter what" (the fetch tool marked the quotation as truncated).

The extract records that the remarks were delivered at his investiture ceremony, that they set out four priorities — gun violence, financial corruption, community outreach across the district, and office staff — and that he announced the creation of a Civil Rights Unit within the office's Criminal Division.

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**Checked and not found in this extract:** any statement of the date he took office, of Senate confirmation dates, or of pandemic-relief matters.