Posted on 04/16/2021 1:44:42 PM PDT by Hojczyk
When Kristen Clarke wasn’t lying under oath to Senators during her confirmation hearing, she was trying her best to mislead them.
For example, Clarke grossly misled Senators during an exchange with Sen. Tom Cotton regarding Jacob Blake, who was shot by a police officer in Kenosha, Wisconsin. Shortly after the shooting, Clarke stated on social media that Blake was unarmed. It is undisputed, however, that Blake had a knife.
When Clarke conceded to Cotton that Blake was armed, the Senator expressed concern that in this and other instances, the nominee jumped, without evidence, to the conclusion that the police acted improperly. It’s one thing, Cotton said, for a citizen in an advocacy role to do so. But police officers throughout America should be terrified of someone with the power of the federal government behind her doing this whenever officers have to use force to protect themselves and the public.
Clarke responded that she recognizes the distinction between serving an advocacy group and serving the Justice Department. Then, she cited her record as a “prosecutor” during the George W. Bush administration in support of her claim to be even handed. “I’ve done this job before,” Clarke said.
Accordingly, police officers can take no comfort from Clarke’s time at the DOJ. This is a nominee whose presumptions always run against the police. As Cotton pointed out, she is still unwilling to agree with the conclusion of the Eric Holder and Vanita Gupta, that officer Darren Wilson was justified in his use of force against Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri.
Tom Cotton is right. Rank-and-file police officers throughout America should be terrified of Kristen Clarke. And law-abiding Americans should be very afraid of the accelerated exodus of police officers the Biden Justice Department is likely to produce.
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There are quite a few starting to call her unfit.
Gee, I wonder if most of the white police officers resign who will replace them? Social workers with bouquets or cops of color?
Lol. Like anyone with a brain didn’t know that every RAT nominee would be a dangerous lying woke fascist zealot. Lying and subterfuge is a guaranteed feature of these people.
And she’ll be confirmed anyway
Who? Which DEM or Leftist in Congress or Senate is saying that?
In our current culture, if I were a cop, I’d be looking for a new line of work.
If anyone has ever heard her expounding on things, one would know why. Proof yet again that ivy league law school can’t be that tough.
FIFTA.
Cops of color would be called race traitors.
Real cops aren’t terrified of anything.
Me included.
As already noted in a comment above, it’s not the police officers who should be terrified: they can resign and find other work. It’s the citizenry who should fear because the criminal element will be unleashed from even their current level of restraint. Citizens are slowly being transformed into slaves and chattel, in the alleged land of the free and home of the brave.
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