Kamala Harris Challenges Bill Barr to Say-Under Oath-that Clearing of Lafayette Square Was Unrelated
Source: lawandcrime.com
Kamala Harris Challenges Bill Barr to Say–Under Oath–that Clearing of Lafayette Square Was Unrelated to Bible Photo Op
Matt Naham Jun 4th, 2020, 5:10 pm
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“I invite Bill Barr to say this in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee—under oath,” Harris said.
The invitation from Harris, a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, comes two days after House Judiciary Committee Democrats announced plans to hear testimony from several DOJ whistleblowers and made a threat to cut the budget of the attorney general’s personal office. This was their counter to Barr’s “refusal” to testify before the panel.
Barr claimed Thursday that there was “no correlation between our tactical plan of moving the perimeter out by one block and the President’s going over to the church.” The administration continues to say one thing about the use of force that day, while the press and evidence from the scene say another. For instance, White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany said Wednesday that “No tear gas was used, and no rubber bullets were used.” President Trump also said no tear gas was used. But evidence showed otherwise.
Barr, who was among the gaggle of cabinet members and Trump advisors who joined the president in front of St. John’s Church on Monday, said the photo op with the Bible was not necessarily a “political act.” Barr also said the action to “move the perimeter” was planned before he heard about the walk to St. John’s Church.
“I think the president is the head of the executive branch and the chief executive of the nation and should be able to walk outside the White House and walk across the street to the ‘church of presidents.’ I don’t necessarily view that as a political act,” he said. “I think it was entirely appropriate for him to do. I did not know that he was going to do that until later in the day after our plans were well underway to move the perimeter.”
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Well, mr. barr.. the ball is in your court.
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AP FACT CHECK: Trump denies tear gas use despite evidence
By CALVIN WOODWARD yesterday
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Tear gas floats in the air as a line of police move demonstrators away from St. John's Church across Lafayette Park from the White House, as they gather to protest the death of George Floyd, Monday, June 1, 2020, in Washington. Floyd died after being restrained by Minneapolis police officers. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump and some of his supporters are claiming authorities did not use tear gas against people in a crackdown outside the White House this week. There’s evidence they did.
Law enforcement officials shy away from describing crowd-dispersing chemical tools as tear gas; it evokes police gassing citizens or the horrors of war. But giving those tools a more antiseptic name does not change the reality on the ground.
Federal institutions such as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Chemical Defense have listed tear gas as the common term for riot-control agents. Whether the common or formal term is used, the effects on people are the same.
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Those effects were well documented when authorities forcefully cleared a crowd from outside the White House before Trump walked to St. John’s Church across Lafayette Park on Monday to be photographed holding a Bible.
“They didn’t use tear gas,” Trump said Wednesday on Fox News Radio. The U.S. Park Police denied using tear gas, yet acknowledged deploying a pepper compound, which the CDC and other scientific organizations list as one form of tear gas.
Authorities, who came from more than a half-dozen agencies besides the Park Police, set loose several wafting compounds, causing people to cough and gag as they scattered, their eyes red and streaming in some cases. They displayed the results of exposure to tear gas — tears, for example.........................................
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And heard the "foomp" sound that means a tear gas canister has been shot out (call it pepper spray, call it crowd disperser, it is what it is) and went to CNN to find out what was happening and where. I trust my own ears more than I trust Low Barr even if he swears on a stack of Bibles (and besides we have the freakin' videos!!!!!)
But go, Kamala!!!
