Posted by MikeT23 on 4/9/2015 8:42:00 AM (view original):
Didn't have time for this yesterday but Wolf Blitzer was trying to paint a big picture of police shootings based on one video. Rand Paul, who just happened to be in Charleston on the campaign trail, corrected him.
“First, I would like to say it’s just a terrible tragedy, and I hope justice does occur,” Paul said. “But I do think that sometimes -- the way we report news -- we tend to report the news of crime, and so we see a lot of crime, and we think it’s representative of the whole. And I think when you look at police across our country, 98, 99 percent of them of them are doing their job on a day-to-day basis and aren’t doing things like this.”
In plotting his White House run, Paul has actively courted minority communities and has co-sponsored a bill in the Senate asking for statistics related to white police officers unjustly killing African-Americans.
But he said in the interview that these kinds of tragedies shouldn’t serve as an indictment on the behavior of police officers around the country.
“I hope we don’t paint it with such a broad brush that we draw conclusions that may not be accurate,” Paul said.
"We have a problem with systematic racism in America" =/= "all cops are racist."