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Within the video introduction to Rep. Jamie Raskin’s, D-Md., speech on Monday night, the Democratic Nationwide Conference aired a parody narration of a gap segue from “Legislation & Order.”
“Within the prison justice system, the individuals are represented by two separate but equally necessary teams: the police who examine crime, and the district attorneys who prosecute the offenders,” the narration went, in related kind to the NBC commonplace.
The video went on to color former President Trump as a prison defendant on this system, with the narrator saying, “He lies, he rips off staff, he sexually abuses girls.”
“[T]o tackle this case, we want a president who has spent her life prosecuting perpetrators like Donald Trump,” the narration continues, clearly referring to Vice President Kamala Harris.
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Vice President Kamala Harris clasps her hand within the air with President Biden on the Democratic Nationwide Conference, Monday, Aug. 19, 2024, in Chicago. (AP Picture/Jacquelyn Martin)
Harris has not too long ago known as out her opponent in the same gentle: “I do know Donald Trump’s sort.”
Previous to her time within the Senate, she served as California lawyer common and San Francisco County district lawyer. She notably gained her lawyer common’s race by the narrowest margin in state historical past.
In 2009, Harris wrote a guide: “Sensible on Crime,” which sought to “mak[e] the prison justice system actually, not simply rhetorically, robust.”
Within the interim, she made a number of feedback important of the state of regulation enforcement and has been criticized by Republicans for actions together with soliciting donations for the Minnesota Freedom Fund – which paid bail for Minneapolis riot suspects.
Throughout a June 2019 presidential candidates’ discussion board hosted by the Poor Folks’s Marketing campaign (PPC), Harris joined Hialeah, Florida, Mayor Wayne Messam and Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., for a panel hosted by PPC’s Liz Theoharis and MSNBC pundit Pleasure Reid.
In response to a multi-tiered query by Theoharis, Harris mentioned, “On the problem of militarization of police, I’ve a long-standing report of claiming we have to demilitarize police, and we actually must get to a degree the place communities frankly don’t want a regulation enforcement response to what’s occurring of their communities as a result of they’re secure communities.”
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Sen. Kamala Harris speaks throughout a information convention unveiling policing reform and equal justice laws on the U.S. Capitol on June 8, 2020. (Al Drago/Bloomberg through Getty Pictures)
CNN and different networks have not too long ago flagged Harris’ previous statements on policing, because the left-leaning community revisited her June 2020 feedback on a New York radio present that the Defund the Police motion “rightly sa[id] we want to check out these budgets and work out whether or not it displays the best priorities.”
The Democrat additionally mentioned some municipalities had been “militarizing police” whereas “defunding public faculties.”
In 2020, Harris sparred with then-“View” host Meghan McCain, after the Republican scion pressed the long run vp as as to whether she helps “defunding the police.”
Harris replied by asking how McCain would outline defunding police, whereas individually providing that the U.S. must “reimagine how we’re attaining public security.”
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“And to have cities the place one-third of their total funds goes to policing, however but there is a dire want in those self same cities for psychological well being sources, for sources going into public faculties, for sources going into job coaching and job creation. Come on.”
Throughout a dialogue with celebrities Andy Cohen and Laverne Cox in 2020, Harris mentioned the “established order pondering” that extra police on the road interprets to safer streets is mistaken.
“It’s outdated, and it’s truly mistaken and backward to suppose that extra cops will create extra security,” she added on an episode of Chris Hayes’ MSNBC program.
Fox Information Digital reached out to the Harris marketing campaign for remark however didn’t obtain a response at press time.
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DNC paints Harris as ‘regulation and order’ standard-bearer as previous feedback on ‘militarization of police’ resurface
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