Jon Stewart opened Wednesday night’s Daily Show dropping the comedy to tackle the “utterly depressing” non-indictment in the Eric Garner case. He said, “I don’t know. I honestly don’t know what to say. If comedy is tragedy plus time, I need more fucking time.”

At least with Ferguson, Stewart said, there was conflicting testimony, “but here there is none of that.” And there’s no question about unreliable witnesses because there’s video and “we are fucking watching it.”

Stewart wrapped by literally just showing a video of kittens to cheer everyone up… but even then he couldn’t escape race issues.

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President Barack Obama said he is committed to improving strained relations between police and minority communities Wednesday in the wake of two recent grand jury decisions that failed to indict white police officers in the deaths of unarmed black men, saying “we are seeing too many instances where people do not have confidence that folks are being treated fairly.”

“This is an American problem when anybody in this country is not being treated equally under the law. That’s a problem and it’s my job as president to help solve it,” Obama said at a Tribal Nations Conference in Washington, D.C.

U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder said Wednesday evening that the Justice Department is launching “an independent, thorough, fair and expeditious” civil-rights investigation into Garner’s death. Federal investigators have been closely following the case all along, but wanted wait for the local proceedings to conclude before beginning their own probe, he said.

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