Thread by @cam_joseph

Some progressives are still howling #KamalaIsaCop. But many actual police hated her for years because of her refusal to seek the death penalty for a cop-killer. This case will almost certainly come up again now that she's Biden's VP pick.
vice.com/en_us/article/…

As has been widely reported, @SenFeinstein called out @KamalaHarris at the officer's funeral. Thousands of cops applauded. Chris Cunnie, a former cop who was sitting near Harris at the funeral and later worked for her, told me the reax to Feinstein's comments "was like a bomb."

But folks seem to forget how much this dogged Harris in subsequent years. Longtime Harris staffer Tim Silard told me that when cops spotted Harris as he rode in SF Pride parades w/ her, “year after year, as the car drove down the parade route they’d turn their backs to her."

And when Harris ran for CA AG in 2010, it was a central campaign issue. All 57 police groups in the state endorsed her opponent. Espinoza's mom was featured in GOP attack ads. She barely won, running behind the rest of the ticket.

Steve Cooley, who Harris narrowly beat in 2010, on the "Kamala's a cop" primary attacks: “I kind of laughed when that happened, I thought that’s not really fair. Come on — she was not what you’d consider to be a tough on crime prosecutor."

This'll undoubtedly come up again.
Harris 2010 campaign manager @brianbrokaw: "I have no doubt they’ll make it a political issue. I don’t know if it’ll be very effective."
Cooley: "I don’t think the Trump campaign has to do much of anything except to regurgitate history."