In an appearance before the House Judiciary Committee, Attorney General William Barr said he doesn’t believe that systematic racism in policing exists in the United States, despite being presented with statistics showing racial disparities in the use of force.
In an appearance before the House Judiciary Committee on Tuesday, Attorney General William Barr said he doesn't believe that systematic racism in policing exists in the United States, despite being presented with data suggesting that it does.
Jackson Lee then asked Barr why the Justice Department has not implemented"pattern-or-practice" investigations to address the disparity. “Your focus was more to let out friends like Roger Stone and Paul Manafort," she said,"while Tamir Rice, whose case has not been taken up, was playing with a toy gun, was killed by police at the age of 12; Breonna Taylor was sleeping in her apartment when she was killed by police at age 26; and Rayshard Brooks, 27, was killed just for sleeping in his car in a Wendy's parking lot; and George Floyd, from Houston, Texas, known as ‘a humble man,’ was murdered in the streets of...
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