{"id":44587,"date":"2020-09-03T02:08:45","date_gmt":"2020-09-03T02:08:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/freshestfm.com\/barr-says-theres-a-false-narrative-about-racial-bias-in-police-shootings\/"},"modified":"2020-09-03T02:08:49","modified_gmt":"2020-09-03T02:08:49","slug":"barr-says-theres-a-false-narrative-about-racial-bias-in-police-shootings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/freshestfm.com\/barr-says-theres-a-false-narrative-about-racial-bias-in-police-shootings\/","title":{"rendered":"Barr Says There&#8217;s a &#8216;False Narrative&#8217; About Racial Bias in Police Shootings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Bill Barr insists the police shootings of unarmed African Americans aren&#8217;t racially motivated.<\/p>\n<p>The Attorney General made the comments during an appearance on CNN&#8217;s <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2020\/09\/02\/politics\/william-barr-cnn-interview\/index.html\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer<\/em><\/a>, claiming there was a &#8220;false narrative&#8221; about racial biases within\u00a0criminal justice system. Barr told Blitzer that there were some situations in which a Black person was treated differently by police and not &#8220;given the benefit of the doubt,&#8221; but doesn&#8217;t believe those instances indicate\u00a0systemic racism.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t think there are two justice systems,&#8221; Barr said. &#8220;I think the narrative that the police are in some epidemic of shooting unarmed black men is simply a false narrative and also the narrative that&#8217;s based on race &#8230; I think the narrative that the police are on some, you know, epidemic of shooting unarmed black men is simply a false narrative and also the narrative that that&#8217;s based on race. The fact of the matter is very rare for an unarmed African-American to be shot by a white police officer.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Barr was also asked how he thinks Black parents should speak to their children about the cases of\u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/complex.com\/tag\/jacob-blake\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jacob Blake<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/complex.com\/tag\/george-floyd\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">George Floyd<\/a>. The Attorney General said he didn&#8217;t want to weigh in\u00a0on the Blake case, because it wasn&#8217;t comparable to Floyd&#8217;s.<\/p>\n<section class=\"suitcase-ad\"\/>\n<p>&#8220;I think it&#8217;s different than the Floyd case,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Floyd was already subdued,\u00a0incapacitated, in handcuffs, and was not armed. In the Jacob case, he was in the midst of committing a felony and he was armed.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Kenosha officers claim there was a knife on the floorboard of Blake&#8217;s car when he was shot seven times by an officer. Blake&#8217;s\u00a0family has denied that he was armed during the incident.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t want to talk about the [Blake and Floyd cases] as if they&#8217;re interchangeable,&#8221; Barr said. &#8220;I do think that there appears to be a phenomenon in the country where African Americans feel that they&#8217;re treated when they&#8217;re stopped by police frequently as suspects before they are treated as citizens. I don&#8217;t think that that necessarily reflects some deep-seated racism in police departments or in most police officers &#8230; I think people operate very frequently according to stereotypes and I think it takes extra precaution on the part of law enforcement to make sure we don&#8217;t reduce people to stereotypes, we treat them as individuals.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.complex.com\/life\/2020\/09\/attorney-general-bill-bar-denies-systemic-racism-in-law-enforcement\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a style=\"display:none\" rel=\"follow\" href=\"http:\/\/megatheme.ir\/\" title=\"\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633\">\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bill Barr insists the police shootings of unarmed African Americans aren&#8217;t racially motivated. The Attorney General made the comments during an appearance on CNN&#8217;s The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer, claiming there was a &#8220;false narrative&#8221; about racial biases within\u00a0criminal justice system. Barr told Blitzer that there were some situations in which a Black person [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":44588,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560,111,112,270,262,5,7825,8366,7,8,2061,2784,273,93],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-black-lives-matter","category-dfp-politics","category-dfp-politics-govt","category-dfp-politics-social","category-donald-trump","category-featured","category-george-floyd","category-jacob-blake","category-music","category-news","category-police-brutality","category-police-shooting","category-racism","category-tier-one"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/freshestfm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44587","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/freshestfm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/freshestfm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freshestfm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freshestfm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44587"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/freshestfm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44587\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44589,"href":"https:\/\/freshestfm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44587\/revisions\/44589"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freshestfm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/freshestfm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freshestfm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freshestfm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}