Obama's AG Eric Holder's investigations of police departments came to a halt while Trump was in office, but Biden's AG Merrick Garland is restarting them now
By Howie Katz
Merrick Garland flanked by friends
Barack Obama started the war on cops following the arrest of his friend Harvard professor Henry Lois Gates in 2009.
After Gates' arrest, Obama frequently questioned police shootings of Blacks, usually before all the facts were in. And his AG Eric Holder went on a rampage investigating police departments blacks complained about. And there is no doubt that Holder's investigations had the approval of Obama.
Near the end of his term in office, Obama nominated Merrick Garland for a seat on the Supreme Court, but the Republican controlled Senate would not confirm the nomination.
On April 21, Garland
announced that the Justice Department will conduct a sweeping
investigation of the Minneapolis Police Department to determine if there
is a pattern or practice of unconstitutional or unlawful policing by
its officers.
On April 27, Garland announced that the Justice Department will investigate theLouisville Police Department to determine if it's officers engage in a pattern of unreasonable force. Louisville cops killed Breonna Tailor last year after her boyfriend shot one of the officers in the leg during a drug raid. The officers did not intend to shoot Taylor.
On April 27, the FBI announced that it opened a civil rights investigation into the police shooting of Andrew Brown Jr. on April 21. Brown, an ex-con with a history of selling drugs, was sitting in his car in the driveway of his home when North Carolina deputies attempted to serve a search warrant. The deputies opened fire as he tried to drive away.
Attorneys for the Brown family point to independent autopsy report
The Brown family hired their own pathologist to conduct an autopsy which showed he had been shot four times in the right arm and killed by a shot to the back of his head.
Civil rights investigations used to not be started for weeks, more often months, after police shootings, but since, Obama, Biden and Kamala Harris believe there is 'systemic racism' in American law enforcement, the investigation in this case was started within one week of the shooting.
On April 20, Columbus, Ohio police officer Nicholas Reardon shot dead 16-yearr-old Ma'khia Bryant as she was about to stab another black girl.
Body cam footage shows Ma'khia Bryant about to stab another black girl
Instead of praising Reardon for saving a girl's life, Biden's press secretary Jen Psaki declared that the shooting of this "child" showed that "black and Latino people ... experience higher rates of police violence."
So, the war on cops that Obama started continues unabated under Biden's administration.
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