WASHINGTON – The conservative pushback to the public outcry over George Floyd’s killing arguably began on Tucker Carlson’s primetime Fox News commentary show.
Carlson spent much of his monologue cataloguing violent incidents in numerous U.S. cities that seemed to many to be close to spiraling out of control. Attorney General William Barr on Sunday morning called the previous Sunday “the most violent day in Washington in 30 years,” a reference back to the Mount Pleasant riots of 1991.
The template had a few key points: focus on the violence and looting rather than peaceful protests against systemic racism; accuse the peaceful demonstrators of having no real agenda; deny that systemic racism exists, broadly speaking or particularly in policing, despite significant evidence that the justice system treats black and white people in vastly different ways; and imply that Floyd himself was not a good person and should not stand for something bigger.
And the chorus went on among conservatives throughout the week. On Tuesday, the Wall Street Journal published an op-ed by Heather MacDonald, a hardline conservative, headlined “The Myth of Systemic Police Racism.” National Review on Wednesday published a similar article by Andrew C. McCarthy headlined, “The ‘Institutional Racism’ Canard.
On the back end of the continuum are disparities in sentencing, a widely acknowledged problem. There is also evidence that the plea bargain system is abused in a way that bypasses fair trials and results in worse outcomes for black people. There are also indications of similar problems with the issuance of bail, pretrial detention, and post-conviction commutations and pardons.
But there is also the challenge of insufficient standards for data collection on police shootings. Social scientists are working to improve this, and there is proposed legislation in the Congress — backed by Scott and other Republicans — to mandate that states collect it. “The Walter Scott case in 2015, had it not been for a video, it would not have happened,” Scott said, referring to the 50-year old black man who was shot in the back by a white police officer in North Charleston, S.C., where Scott grew up. “And when you read the police reports, you come to the conclusion that it didn't happen the way it happened until you have a video that substantiates what it is.
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