Democratic vice presidential candidate Kamala Harris said Sunday that when it comes to racial disparities in the corrupt judicial system, President Donald Trump and Attorney General William Barr “are moving full-time to another reality.”
“America’s truth today is what he noticed over the generations, and frankly, since our inception, we have two justice systems in America,” Harris told CNN, contradicting Barr, who told the cable news network last week.”I don’t think there are two justice systems.”
Harris said at CNN’s State of the Union that, adjusted for population numbers, black men are more likely to be arrested by police without probable cause.
“There is no doubt that we have noticed an unacceptable effect on generations of unarmed black men killed.No one can deny that,” Harris said.
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“I don’t think other moderate maxims who pay attention to the facts dispute that there are racial disparities,” he said, adding that the justice formula has been “involved in racism.”
Protests against police brutality and racial discrimination have gained strength in the Obama administration and resurfaced stronger after the death of George Floyd, an unarmed black man, after a white Minneapolis cop held him with a knee around his neck.A wave of protests erupted this year after a police officer in Kenosha, Wisconsin, shot Jacob Blake several times in the back, leaving him paralyzed.
During his visit to Kenosha last week, Trump despised the concept that the Blake shooting or other recent police incidents that killed or wounded black Americans were rooted in systemic racism.
“Reckless right-wing politicians continue to send the message that our country and law enforcement are oppressive or racist,” Trump said.
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When he arrived in Kenosha two days later, Biden said, “The underlying racism that is institutionalized in the United States still exists, has existed for years.”
Last month, Harris told NBC News, “from what I’ve seen, it looks like the officer was charged” for Blake’s shooting, adding, “I don’t see how anyone would think that would be justifiable.”
Harris adjusted his comments on Sunday by saying, “I completely own the facts of the case.”
“But, based on what I’ve seen, I think rates should be considered and considered in a very serious way, and that there are obligations and consequences,” he said.
The justice formula will have to “demand obligations and consequences for anyone who violates regulations or violates the law, adding cops,” Harris said.”But everyone is entitled to due process, all of them, adding to the police.And I inspire that. I’ll take that. I believe that our democracy and our formula of justice require it.”
“Obviously I’m the prosecutor on the case,” she added.
Biden followed a similar line last week, telling reporters “that we let the justice formula get away with it,” while also thinking that “there’s a minimal need” for the officer who shot Blake to “be charged,” as well as those concerned about the death of Breonna Taylor, who was shot on March 13 at Louisville Array Kentucky, after the police broke into his apartment.
When asked Sunday whether the fees were justified by the death of Daniel Prude, a black man who died in March after being forced by force by police in Rochester, New York, Harris said he would “give prosecutors the advantage of doubt.”the case.”
For long-term police-related deaths and injuries, Harris said she and Biden had proposed adjustments such as banning strangulation and extending the liability of police officers who violate regulations and violate the law.”
Dana Bash, a union state presenter, noted that in her 2009 book Harris wrote that she was looking to see more police officers on the streets, but in June she told the New York Times: “It’s a prestige quo to think that putting more cops on the streets creates more security.That’s not true.”
When asked about the obvious replacement of the review, Harris said he would like to see more police officers on the streets.
“What I would say now is what I would say then, which is that I need to make sure that if a woman is raped, a child is abused or a human being murders a human being, there will be a police officer responding to this.and that there will be obligations and consequences for the offender.Yes, ” he said.
Harris said the most effective way to reduce crime in black communities is to address economic inequality.
“If you move to a high-end suburb of the United States, you may not see the presence of the police, but what you do see are well-funded public schools, maximum housing ownership rates, small businesses that have access to capital,” he said., if we need to create safe communities, one of the smartest tactics to do so is to invest in the fitness of those communities, because fit communities are safe communities.”
“We in America want to reinvent the public safety we do,” he said.
Harris said all the reforms she and Biden have proposed are based on the “recognition that there are huge racial disparities in our country.”
“And it’s no use to us if we need those disparities pretending they don’t exist.”
Contributor: Molly Beck, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel; Will Cleveland, Rochester Democrat and Columnist