Posted on 09/10/2019 6:10:21 AM PDT by MarvinStinson
'We shouldn't have to acknowledge their trauma because they're paid to be there'
Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Kamala Harris (Calif.) acknowledged Salon's editor-at-large D. Watkins was "right" about police officers after he claimed "they just harass and take up space in poor communities."
Harris's campaign released a 31-minute campaign video on Monday that included Harris speaking with black leaders about the U.S. criminal justice system. Near the beginning of the video, Watkins criticized police officers and their role in poor communities.
"We shouldn't have to acknowledge their trauma because they're paid to be there. We live in these places. Police officers have historically not been held accountable because they protect and serve the rich and then they just harass and take up space in poor communities," Watkins said. "I don't see any type of big shift happening with the one term because it's like a cultural thing."
"Right," Harris said while nodding her head.
Watkins went on to ask Harris how she would change the law enforcement culture on a national scale, prompting her to ask, "Is the responsibility of law enforcement to make sure there is consequence and accountability for crime or is the responsibility of law enforcement to ensure public safety?"
Despite her focus on criminal justice reform during her presidential campaign, Harris faced backlash from the black community and several black leaders for her record of sending at least 1,560 people to state prisons for marijuana-related offenses during her tenure as California attorney general between 2011 and 2016.
MSNBC contributor Jason Johnson on Monday compared Harris proposing her new criminal justice plan to a burglar offering to help install security systems during an appearance on Morning Joe.
"Her attempt to roll out this brand new criminal justice program is one of her ways of saying, ‘Hey, I'm coming back into this. I've got something to say, I'm an expert in this area," Johnson said. "But politically, it's kinda difficult. She's sort of like a burglar saying, ‘Hey, let me set up your home security system.'"
"Many liberals have said she is a part of the very criminal justice system that she's now saying, ‘Hey this is how I'm going to reform it,'" Johnson added. "So, a lot of this is about Senator Harris convincing people that she can initiate the changes she seemed to symbolically represent when she first got into the race."
Harris was also hit on her criminal justice record in July by Democratic presidential candidate Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (Hawaii), accusing her of hypocrisy.
"Senator Harris said she was proud of her record as a prosecutor and that she'll be a prosecutor president, but I'm deeply concerned about this record," Gabbard said. "She put over 1,500 people in jail for marijuana violations and then laughed about it when she was asked if she ever smoked marijuana."
What she is really saying:
Police enforce Whitey’s law. Police and the whole justice system needs to stop arresting Blacks, and to allow them to take what is “rightfully” theirs from Whitey because he is “oppressing” them.
I say, OK. Take the cops out of the Black areas, and let the residents do what they want. The result will be unprecedented Black on Black crime, much worse than we now have in Newark and Chicago.
That’s what she wants.
I don’t know if you know this but, she got her start of Willie Brown’s staff.
“His Willie was that big.” ;-)
“They’re animals anyway, so let them lose their souls.”
Sounds like Kamala agrees with this famous Godfather quote.
‘We shouldn’t have to acknowledge their trauma because they’re paid to be there,’ so KH is telling us that harassment of public officials is fine since they’re paid to be public servants.
So, I guess she’ll welcome nicknames like “Heels up” because it’s why she gets paid her U.S. Senator’s salary.
Yeah, right....
That describes CONgress.
Police should step back from ANY proactive policing in black communities. Just be the person who writes up the report after criminal behavior. Give these idiots what they want, a life free of law enforcement.
Kamala would never acknowledge The Ferguson Effect, but her attitude is exactly why it is prevalent in so many jurisdictions.
This kind of crap from the left reminds me of an incident documented some years back ... there was some kind of protest going on in ChiCongo or some other minority-majority city. The scene was a black guy was yelling at a close by cop. The black guy said something like ‘the cops want us all dead’. To which the cop responded ‘Sir if we wanted you dead we don’t need to do it. We could stop patrolling this area and sooner or later one of your neighbors would do you for us’.
IMO that sounds like a plan ...
Just remember to wall those areas off.
I'd like to know how she proposes to achieve the latter without the former.
A no-go zone, in other words. That's not a solution.
That does seem to be what she and other BLM types want. I'd be okay with it if we could wall off those neighborhoods. Or maybe we would not need to since all the police would be protecting the non-BLM areas?
Let’s do an experiment, Kamala. Let’s stop sending police into the neighborhoods you chose for six months. Then we track how many people howl for police coverage. Let’s take the Fire Departments out as well.
Blacks aint the majority population in prisons because we like to see bars superimposed on them. If they were Kamala Harris would be buried under the jail house.
Want to do something about our two-tiered justice system? Arrest the coup leaders and bring THEM to justice. After all, they just take up space and terrorize everybody.
Three Nationality Harris is done.
Tulsi Gabbard took care of that.
We know how this story ends.
Leftists have genocide on their minds.
Plan accordingly.
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