TODAY: Attorney General William Barr to Testify on #BlackLivesMatter Protest Response (via @NYTimes) nytimes.com/2020/07/28/us/…
He’s expected to tell Congress that “there is no place in this country for armed mobs that seek to establish autonomous zones...or tear down statues and monuments that law-abiding communities chose to erect, or to destroy the property and livelihoods of innocent business owners.”
This essentially is Barr doubling (or tripling) down on his support for how local, state and federal police have been used to quell #BlackLivesMatter protests over the last two+ months. Thousands have been arrested, many also bearing physical scars of police brute force.
Many will point out that officers also have been injured. What we know is where officers were ordered to exercise overwhelming force toward peaceful protesters, they suffered far more injuries. And where officers simply protected speech, things remained peaceful.
