Attorney General Bill Barr is set to testify before the House Judiciary Committee Tuesday morning in what will likely be a contentious hearing, as Democrats have claimed the Department of Justice has become politicized under the AG after a number of recent cases involving people close to the president.
In his opening statement Barr makes it clear from the start that he is no Trump loyalist.
Barr then turns his attention to several issues at the nation's forefront: the killing of George Floyd, racism, black-on-black crime, efforts to defund the police, and the rioting in Portland.
Bringing up the Washington Post's data on the number of unarmed black men who have been killed by police this year, Barr said it is low, and lower in fact than the number of unarmed white men killed by police in the same period of time.
Efforts to defund the police and the "Demonization of police" are not helpful, Barr says, and will harm inner city communities the most.
"Unfortunately, we are seeing that now in many of our major cities. The threat to black lives posed by crime on the streets is massively greater than any threat posed by police misconduct."
On the issue of the riots in Portland by antifa and other rioters, Barr makes clear it is not a protest: "[I]t is, by any objective measure, an assault on the Government of the United States.
In his opening statement Barr makes it clear from the start that he is no Trump loyalist.
Barr then turns his attention to several issues at the nation's forefront: the killing of George Floyd, racism, black-on-black crime, efforts to defund the police, and the rioting in Portland.
Bringing up the Washington Post's data on the number of unarmed black men who have been killed by police this year, Barr said it is low, and lower in fact than the number of unarmed white men killed by police in the same period of time.
Efforts to defund the police and the "Demonization of police" are not helpful, Barr says, and will harm inner city communities the most.
"Unfortunately, we are seeing that now in many of our major cities. The threat to black lives posed by crime on the streets is massively greater than any threat posed by police misconduct."
On the issue of the riots in Portland by antifa and other rioters, Barr makes clear it is not a protest: "[I]t is, by any objective measure, an assault on the Government of the United States.
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