Posted on 10/16/2020 3:59:54 AM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
When asked Tuesday about the video of George Floyd’s death, Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett said it is “obvious” racism persists in the U.S., but the issue of how the country should address it is up to policymakers, not judges.
The line of questioning came from U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin of Illinois, a Democrat, during the second day of Judge Barrett’s confirmation hearings.
Barrett, who has two adopted children from Haiti, said the Floyd video was “very, very personal for my family.” She said the events of this last summer was particularly difficult for her 17-year-old daughter, Vivian.
“My children, to this point in their lives, have had the benefit of growing up in a cocoon where they have not yet experienced hatred or violence,” Barrett said. “For Vivian, to understand there would be a risk to her brother or the son she might have one day of that kind of brutality has been an ongoing conversation. It’s a difficult one for us, like it is for Americans all over the country.”
When asked by Durbin where she feels the country is today when it comes to the issue of race, Barrett said she thinks it is “an entirely uncontroversial and obvious statement” that racism persists in the U.S.
How to address it, however, is a question for policymakers, Barrett said.
“While I did share my personal experience and am happy to discuss the reaction our family had to the George Floyd video, giving broader statements or making broader diagnoses about the problem of racism is kind of beyond what I’m capable of doing as a judge," she said.
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Video link to her response. Among a few factors keeping liberals in line from trying to tear her down — at least in the open.
Transcript:
DURBIN: “Have you seen the George Floyd video?”
BARRETT: “I have.”
DURBIN: “What impact did it have on you?”
BARRETT: “Senator, as you might imagine, given that I have two black children, that was very, very personal for my family. Jesse was with the boys on a camping trip out in South Dakota, so I was there and my 17 year old daughter Vivian who’s adopted from Haiti, all of this was erupting. It was very difficult for her. We wept together in my room and then it was also difficult for my daughter Julia who’s 10. I had to try to explain some of this to them. I mean, my children to this point in their lives have had the benefit of growing up in a cocoon where they have not yet experienced hatred or violence. And for Vivian to understand that there would be a risk to her brother or the son she might have one day, of that kind of brutality, has been an ongoing conversation and it’s a difficult one for us like it is for Americans all over the country.”
DURBIN: “I’d like to ask you as an originalist who obviously has passion for history, I can’t imagine that you can separate to – to reflect on the history of this country where are we today when it comes to the issue of race? Some argue it’s fine. Everything’s fine and you don’t have to even teach children about the history of slavery or discrimination. Others say, there’s implicit bias in so many aspects of American life that we have to be very candid about and address. Others go further and say no, it’s systemic racism that’s built into America and we have to be much more pointed in our addressing it. How do you feel?”
BARRETT: “So, I think it is an entirely uncontroversial and obvious statement given as we just talked about the George Floyd video that racism persists in our country. As to putting my finger on the nature of the problem, you know whether as you say it’s just outright or systemic racism or how to tackle the issue of making it better, those things are policy questions. They’re hotly contested policy questions that have been in the news and discussed all summer. So while as I did share my personal experience, I’m very happy to discuss the reaction our family had to the George Floyd video, giving broader statements or making broader diagnoses about the problem of racism is kind of beyond what I’m capable of doing as a judge.”
https://www.kusi.com/amy-coney-barrett-shares-her-familys-reaction-to-the-george-floyd-incident/
The knee-on-neck hold was authorized by the Minneapolis Police Manual.
At a minimum, hundreds of USA police departments officially authorized that neck hold before the George Floyd death.
Also...
George Floyd asked Police to lay him on the ground, and he said “I can't breath” several times before he was placed on the ground.
Finally, Floyd had 11 ng of fentanyl in his blood sample, a dosage that would kill most adults, unless they were habitual fentanyl users.
I saw that. She can be a dem level liar or she believes the BS she spouted.
I agree completely with you. A judge establishing guilt before all of the facts are in and teaching her children to do the same thing. That was not a response that should have come from a Supreme Court Justice. Maybe she needed to play politics and say it in this specific instance but she seemed pretty sincere.
It was a good learning experience for kids.
Don’t take gobs of fentanyl and meth when you have numerous health problems as well as the KingFlu. It can kill you especially when you get agitated while resisting arrest.
I HOPE she knows now, and has explained to her children, that what they witnessed was the effects of a FENTANYL OVERDOSE, NOT RACISM.
I am sure that no matter the facts, a black child’s FEELINGS do not in any immediate sense “see” all the facts, in something like the videos of the George Floyd incident. Amy understood her young black daughter’s feelings, and I am sure discussed things with her daughter in an appropriate way, for a parent, for a Conservative parent.
I say if the cop who used the approved knee-on-neck hold is charged with murder then everyone who signed off on that manual should also be charged with murder. It won't happen. Some or most are probably black.
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