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FILE - In this Sept. 27, 2016 file image made from from bystander video provided by the El Cajon Police Department, Alfred Olongo, right, is seen pointing what was later determined to be a bulky electronic cigarette device at El Cajon, Calif., police officer Richard Gonsalves during a confrontation at an El Cajon strip mall. Moments later Olongo was shot and killed. San Diego County District Attorney Bonnie Damais announced Tuesday, Jan. 10, 2017, that no criminal charges will be filed against Gonsalves. (El Cajon Police Department/San Diego County District Attorney's Office via AP, File)
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This photo released by the Cass County Jail shows Kevin Lee Olson. Prosecutors have charged a Olson with making threats against the state's Democratic senator, Heidi Heitkamp. Olson, of Fargo, made his initial appearance in court Tuesday, Jan. 10, 2017, on a charge of having made a threatening communication. He told the judge he doesn't want an attorney and a detention hearing was scheduled for Thursday. (Cass County (N.D.) Jail via AP)
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Jennifer Pinckney, center, widow of Rev. Clementa Pinckney, leaves Federal Court in Charleston Tuesday, Jan. 10, 2017, after a jury sentenced Dylann Roof to death for fatally shooting nine black church members during a Bible study session, becoming the first person ordered executed for a federal hate crime. (Brad Nettles/The Post And Courier via AP)
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Former Los Angeles Sheriff Lee Baca, center, listens as his lawyer, Nathan Hochman, second from right, addresses the media in Los Angeles on Tuesday, Jan. 10, 2017. U.S. prosecutors will retry Baca on obstruction-of-justice and other charges stemming from a federal investigation of jail abuses. (AP Photo/Brian Melley)
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In this Saturday, Jan. 7, 2017, photo, a prayer vigil in honor of Jamie Lee Wounded Arrow at the Cleveland Heights apartment building in Sioux Falls, S.D. Police say a man accused of fatally stabbing the transgender woman in Sioux Falls has been charged with murder and other counts. (Jay Pickthorn/The Argus Leader via AP)
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In this Saturday, Jan. 7, 2017, photo, Franklin J. Whiting Jr. smudges outside of Jamie Lee Wounded Arrow's apartment after she was found dead, as Dorene Sabal-Camacho, right, holds a sign for a memorial used in a prayer service held at the apartment building in Sioux Falls, S.D. Police say a man accused of fatally stabbing a transgender woman in Sioux Falls has been charged with murder and other counts. (Jay Pickthorn/The Argus Leader via AP)
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Judy Silk holds a picture of her sister-in-law, Jamie Lee Wounded Arrow, outside of the Minnehaha County Courthouse in Sioux Falls, S.D. on Tuesday, Jan. 10, 2017. Jamie Lee Wounded Arrow, 28, a local trans woman, was found murdered in her Sioux Falls, S.D., apartment last Friday. Today was a hearing for the perpetrator, Joshua Rayvon LeClaire. LeClaire was charged with one count each of first- and second-degree murder, two counts of first-degree manslaughter, false impersonation and possession of marijuana. Judge Pat Schroeder set the bond LeClaire at $1 million cash-only. (Jay Pickthorn/Sioux Falls Argus Leader via AP) /The Argus Leader via AP)
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Joshua Rayvon LeClaire, 25, is escorted to court at the Minnehaha County Jail in Sioux Falls on Tuesday, Jan. 10, 2017. LeClaire is being changed with murder of local trans woman, Jamie Lee Wounded Arrow. (Jay Pickthorn/Sioux Falls Argus Leader via AP)
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Photo of Kristian Saucier, a former Machinist Mate 1st Class who was sent to prison for photographing his submarine’s classified engine compartments. He has filed a presidential clemency request. (Associated Press, Photo courtesy of the Saucier family) ** FILE **
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Former Machinist Mate 1st Class Kristian Saucier was sent to prison for carelessness with classified information while Hillary Clinton avoided any punishment from the Obama administration. (U.S. District Court of Connecticut) ** FILE **
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Baltimore Ravens general manager Ozzie Newsome speaks as and owner Steve Bisciotti, right, listens during an NFL football news conference, Tuesday, Jan. 10, 2017, in Owings Mills, Md. (Kevin Richardson/The Baltimore Sun via AP)
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Baltimore Ravens owner Steve Bisciotti, center, speaks as general manager Ozzie Newsome,left, and coach John Harbaugh llisten during an NFL football news conference, Tuesday, Jan. 10, 2017, in Owings Mills, Md. (Kevin Richardson/The Baltimore Sun via AP)
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This Friday, Jan. 6, 2017, photo provided by Clark County Detention Center shows Terrance Davis. Police say Davis was returned in custody to Las Vegas following his arrest in December in Lakeland, Fla. Davis is due to face a judge in Las Vegas on murder and weapon charges in the killing of his girlfriend’s ex-boyfriend during what police had thought was a random shooting in an apartment complex parking lot. (Clark County Detention Center via AP)
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Maryland U.S. Attorney Rod Rosenstein announces the guilty pleas of former Prince George's County Councilman and Del. William Alberto Campos-Escobar on conspiracy and bribery charges during a news conference Tuesday, Jan. 10, 2017, in Greenbelt, Maryland. Prosecutors said the 42-year-old Campos-Escobar, who goes by Campos, conspired to solicit and accept bribes in exchange for favorable actions. (AP Photo/Brian Witte)
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Maryland U.S. Attorney Rod Rosenstein announces the guilty pleas of former Prince George's County Councilman and Del. William Alberto Campos-Escobar on conspiracy and bribery charges during a news conference Tuesday, Jan. 10, 2017, in Greenbelt, Maryland. Prosecutors said the 42-year-old Campos-Escobar, who goes by Campos, conspired to solicit and accept bribes in exchange for favorable actions. The FBI Baltimore's Assistant Special Agent in Charge Scott Hinckley stands at left. (AP Photo/Brian Witte)
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FILE - In this Aug. 25, 2016 file photo, from left to right, Nicole Maldonado, Myriah Flores, and her mother Sharlene Benavidez attend a candlelight vigil for 10-year-old Victoria Martens at the apartment complex, in Albuquerque, N.M., where the young girl lived and was killed. Martens was strangled to death on her 10th birthday before she was dismembered and her remains set on fire, according to an autopsy released months after police uncovered the sexual abuse they say she suffered at the hands of her mother and others leading up to her killing. (Jim Thompson /The Albuquerque Journal via AP, File)
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In this June 18, 2015, file photo, Charleston, S.C., shooting suspect Dylann Roof is escorted from the Cleveland County Courthouse in Shelby, N.C. A federal jury has sentenced Roof to death for killing nine black church members in a racially motivated attack in 2015. (AP Photo/Chuck Burton, File)
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Chicago Police Officer Jason Van Dyke approaches the bench for his hearing with Judge Vincent Gaughan at the Leighton Criminal Courts Building in Chicago Tuesday Jan. 10, 2017, in Chicago. Van Dyke is charged with murder in the October 2014 death of Laquan McDonald, who was shot 16 times. The Cook County judge on Tuesday ordered the release of McDonald's juvenile records, except for records about his birth mother and sister. (Nancy Stone/Chicago Tribune via AP, Pool)
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Attorney General-designate, Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala. is sworn in on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Jan. 10, 2017, prior to testifying at his confirmation hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)
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Attorney General-designate, Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala. testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Jan. 10, 2017, at his confirmation hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)