Barr: Liberals Demonizing Police 'Will Escape Consequences,' City Residents Won't
'Unless we support the police, we’re not going to have a police force'
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Attorney General William Barr weighed on the far-left's calls to abolish the police while praising outgoing Seattle Police Chief Carmen Best, who resigned after the Democrat-run City Council voted to defund the police department.
During an interview on Fox News Channel’s “Hannity,” Barr said, “unless we support the police, we’re not going to have a police force."
"These communities are not going to have the safety," Barr said.
Barr then took aim at the liberal left.
"A lot of the liberals will buy themselves out of that. They’ll go to resort towns and so forth, and they’ll escape the consequences of it," Barr said.
'But the people in the inner cities won’t. … That’s not caring about black lives.”
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Barr described Carmen Best, the Seattle Chief of Police who quit her role earlier this week, as an "example of the highly competent and professional and dedicated police professionals we have in this country."
"They’re excellent, and she is a great example of it, and we should be supporting them. And being a police officer is one of the — it is the hardest job in the United States," Barr argued.
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"We’re asking people to go into very dangerous situations, to have jobs that are terribly wearing on them as individuals and on their families, to go into potentially deadly situations not knowing what will happen, and we have to continue to attract the best people into these jobs, and unless we support the police, we’re not going to have a police force."
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"These communities are not going to have the safety. Now, a lot of the liberals will buy themselves out of that," Barr added.
"They’ll go to resort towns and so forth, and they’ll escape the consequences of it. But the people in the inner cities won’t."
"Their lives will be destroyed. Their opportunity will be — they won’t have the opportunity they otherwise would have. Their schools will be overrun by gangs. That’s not caring about black lives.”
Last month, Democratic 'squad' Reps. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) and Ayanna Pressley (D-Mass.) announced federal legislation to defund police.
The BREATHE Act was announced on a Zoom call in July.
“We can start to envision through this bill a new version for public safety — a new vision for public safety, one that protects and affirms black lives,” Tlaib said.
