Washington – Attorney General William Barr’s orders to remain at home to mitigate the spread of enslaved coronavirus and dismissed the Black Lives Matter motion as an exploitation of the death of blacks at the hands of police for political purposes.
“Making a national closure, staying home is like a space arrest. In addition to slavery, which was another type of coertion, it is the greatest meddling in civil liberties in American history. “Barr said a speech at Hillsdale College in Michigan on Wednesday.
Dozens of states issued stay-at-home orders before this year to help prevent the spread of the virus, which has since killed about 200,000 Americans. President Trump also criticized the space ordinances and suggested that states reopen their economies as early as the spring.
Barr also criticized the Black Lives Matter movement, saying activists were examples of blacks killed by police as “accessories. “
“By way of proposal, who can question the proposal “The lives of black people matter”?But they’re not interested in black people’s lives, they’re interested in accessories. A small number of blacks killed by police in a confrontation with police, less than a dozen a year they can use as support to carry out a much broader political agenda,” Barr said.
The country has been plagued by protests in recent months after high-profile killings of black Americans through police officers. Police departments are required to report full knowledge of police killings, however, investigators have compiled statistics that suggest black Americans are more likely to die in a 2018 study found that black men are 3. 5 times more likely to be killed through law enforcement than white men. A study published in 2019 found that one in 1,000 black men in the United States may be waiting to die at the hands of police during their lifetime.
Barr’s comments echo Trump, who gave the impression of leerizing an interview with CBS News earlier this year when asked why black Americans “still die at the hands of law enforcement in this country. “
“It’s the same for other white people. That’s awful to ask. Other white people too,” Trump told CBS News’ senior investigative correspondent Catherine Herridge in July.
In a debatable commentary Wednesday, Barr defended his involvement in high-profile cases of the Department of Justice.
“One of the most boring things I hear and face, and this has been going on for decades, this concept of politicians interfering with research or business. And I say, what do you mean by interference? in the Attorney General, ” said Barr. “Like I tell FBI agents, who do they think they’re agents of?I’m not saying this in a pompous way, but it’s the chain of authority and legitimacy in the Department of Justice. . And I say, what exactly am I interfering with?”
In February, Barr overstealed the advice of Trump’s confidant Roger Stone of a milder sanction, which led the entire trial team to resign before Stone’s sentencing hearing. In May, he also called for the case of criminals opposed to the Trump administration’s former national security exassor, Michael Flynn. , be fired.