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Attorney General Eric Holder brought law and order to the Justice Department on Wednesday.
Or, more precisely, he welcomed "Law & Order" to the Justice Department on Wednesday.
Mariska Hargitay, star of the TV show "Law & Order: SVU," met with Holder for about 15 minutes in the afternoon. Hargitay, in Washington for a few days to address issues related to violence against women, was joined by her husband, actor Peter Hermann, and their 3-year-old son.
As she walked into the Attorney General's office on the fifth floor of the Justice Department, some staffers on the floor tiptoed in while others strained necks to catch a glimpse of the actress.
Talking with reporters afterward, she called meeting Holder a "huge thrill" and said she wanted to "recognize all the work he's done" related to violence against women.
"He's such a rock star," she said.
Holder gave her son a Justice Department medallion and some advice.
"Don't lose it," Hargitay's son recalled Holder saying.
Hargitay is in Washington to mark the fifteenth anniversary of the Violence Against Women Act, which boosted prosecutions of violent crimes targeting women.
At the Newseum in Washington on Tuesday, she joined Associate Attorney General Tom Perrelli as they celebrated the premiere of the documentary, "Telling Amy's Story," which chronicles how authorities failed to intervene before a man killed his wife in a rural Pennsylvania community in 2001, according to the Justice Department.
She is speaking to lawmakers on Capitol Hill about the issue on Thursday.
"This is an exciting time," said Hargitay, who in 2004 founded Joyful Heart, an organization aimed at helping women who have survived sexual assault, domestic violence and child abuse.
When Hargitay began playing Detective Olivia Benson on "Law & Order: SVU" more than a decage ago, the stories in the scripts "opened her eyes to the epidemics of sexual assault, domestic violence and child abuse," according to Joyful Heart's website.
Attorney General Eric Holder brought law and order to the Justice Department on Wednesday.
Or, more precisely, he welcomed "Law & Order" to the Justice Department on Wednesday.
Mariska Hargitay, star of the TV show "Law & Order: SVU," met with Holder for about 15 minutes in the afternoon. Hargitay, in Washington for a few days to address issues related to violence against women, was joined by her husband, actor Peter Hermann, and their 3-year-old son.
As she walked into the Attorney General's office on the fifth floor of the Justice Department, some staffers on the floor tiptoed in while others strained necks to catch a glimpse of the actress.
Talking with reporters afterward, she called meeting Holder a "huge thrill" and said she wanted to "recognize all the work he's done" related to violence against women.
"He's such a rock star," she said.
Holder gave her son a Justice Department medallion and some advice.
"Don't lose it," Hargitay's son recalled Holder saying.
Hargitay is in Washington to mark the fifteenth anniversary of the Violence Against Women Act, which boosted prosecutions of violent crimes targeting women.
At the Newseum in Washington on Tuesday, she joined Associate Attorney General Tom Perrelli as they celebrated the premiere of the documentary, "Telling Amy's Story," which chronicles how authorities failed to intervene before a man killed his wife in a rural Pennsylvania community in 2001, according to the Justice Department.
She is speaking to lawmakers on Capitol Hill about the issue on Thursday.
"This is an exciting time," said Hargitay, who in 2004 founded Joyful Heart, an organization aimed at helping women who have survived sexual assault, domestic violence and child abuse.
When Hargitay began playing Detective Olivia Benson on "Law & Order: SVU" more than a decage ago, the stories in the scripts "opened her eyes to the epidemics of sexual assault, domestic violence and child abuse," according to Joyful Heart's website.
