Harris hasn’t lived a squeaky clean life. But now she’s in the spotlight.
And she went pale as a ghost after incriminating evidence from her past surfaced.
Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris, who loves to flaunt her credentials as a prosecutor in her battle against “felon” Donald Trump, once compared American law enforcement to the horrors of lynching and Jim Crow during the peak of racial unrest in mid-2020.
In a highly controversial statement during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on “Police Use of Force and Community Relations” in June 2020, just weeks after George Floyd’s tragic death, Harris, then a California senator, declared, “When we say that America has a history of systemic racism, we mean that from slavery, Jim Crow laws, lynchings, and policing, our institutions have done violence to black Americans.”
Her comments insinuated that policing in the U.S. is part of a long legacy of racial violence, which left many Americans stunned.
Fast forward to 2024, and Harris is now attempting to leverage her law enforcement background to frame the election as a showdown between a seasoned prosecutor and a convicted criminal.
“Before I became vice president and before I was elected as U.S. [sic] senator, I was the attorney general of California. Before that, I was a prosecutor who took on predators, fraudsters, and cheaters. So I know Donald Trump’s type,” she boasted on X last month.
Back in 2020, Harris didn’t shy away from exploiting the tragic deaths of George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery — whom she controversially claimed was “lynched while going for a run” — and Breonna Taylor, who was k*lled during a botched no-knock warrant raid in Louisville, Kentucky.
She used these incidents to fuel the fire, asserting that “a movement” was underway to “demand an end to the black blood that is staining the sidewalks of our country.”
Harris also pushed the radical idea that America “must reimagine what public safety looks like,” dismissing the notion that more policing could enhance safety.
“The status quo thinking that more police creates more safety is wrong,” she insisted, arguing that instead of investing in law enforcement, resources should be funneled into community health initiatives.
While she stopped short of openly endorsing the “defund the police” movement, Harris parroted much of their rhetoric, criticizing local leaders for prioritizing police militarization over public education, where, according to her, teachers were left to cover school supplies out of their own pockets.
Harris went on to complain about racial disparities in education, housing, the workforce, and healthcare, proposing sweeping reforms like a national use-of-force standard and expanded federal oversight of police departments.
But her message was clear — America’s systemic racism, in her view, was deeply entrenched in every facet of society.
Two days after her Senate hearing, Harris doubled down on her accusations of systemic racism, this time explicitly linking it to the criminal justice system.
“When we say that America has a history of systemic racism, we mean that from slavery, Jim Crow, lynchings, and the criminal justice system, our institutions have done violence to Black Americans,” she wrote on X.
Harris even praised the “defund” movement in a radio interview, endorsing the idea of reevaluating budgets to reflect what she considered the right priorities. Now, as the Democratic nominee for president, her far-Left positions from 2020 are coming back to haunt her.
Republicans have seized on Harris’s radical stances, particularly her promotion of the Minnesota Freedom Fund during the post-Floyd riots, which bailed out individuals accused of violent crimes — some of whom reoffended.
The “Defund the police” movement, once championed by Harris and her allies, quickly became a political liability as crime surged across the country during the later stages of the COVID-19 pandemic.
In contrast, President Biden later bragged about his administration’s efforts to “fund the police,” using the $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan as evidence.
Democrats have tried to distance themselves from their earlier anti-police rhetoric, but the damage is done.
Harris’s attempt to pivot to the center on issues like Medicare for All, fracking, and illegal immigration as she gears up for the general election only highlights the hypocrisy and opportunism that define her political career.
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