The Crime Report (https://thecrimereport.org/category/elections-2020/)
Former U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions referred to Harvard Prof. Henry Louis “Skip” Gates Jr., a prominent black scholar, as “some criminal” during an interview about his days in the Trump administration.
Despite indictments, Russian saboteurs–some linked to the Russian military–have targeted millions of employees of major U.S. firms in a new escalation of East-West cyberwarfare. Chinese and North Korean hackers are also becoming a distributor of “weaponized” social media, according to security experts.
Votes this fall involve cash bail, recreational marijuana, policing, victims’ rights, slavery, a major district attorney’s race in California and a sheriff’s election in Arizona.
More than four dozen progressive groups signed a letter to Joe Biden criticizing his police reform proposals and warning that if he doesn’t adopt more progressive policies he risks losing black voters — and the election — this fall.
Speaking at a virtual NAACP forum, presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden insisted that people should judge him on his current actions, not his past.
The presumptive Democratic nominee backs funding for community policing and diversifying police departments. the Trump campaign says Biden won’t “stand up to extremists.”
After presumptive Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden calls for police reform, a key police union leader says, “police are shaking their heads because he used to be a stand-up guy who backed law enforcement.”
Some Democratic New York legislators say they will send any money they have received so far to community help groups, in support of protests against police misconduct, and will reject all future donations.
Prresidential campaign aides promote Donald Trump’s threats to send the military to quell looting. Rival Joe Biden vowed not to “fan the flames of hate” and laid out a plan to review police practices.
Senator Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), a potential vice presidential candidate, regretted that as a prosecutor, she sent many accusations against police officers to grand juries.