The re-election team of former president Donald Trump grilled the recently unearthed remarks of Kamala Harris after the 2019 school shootings in which the Democratic presidential hopeful called for the removal of police officers from schools.
Trump’s campaign sent an email to its subscribers and talked about recent reports that show that Harris’s remarks have not sat well with the families of the victims of the school mass shootings.
J.T Lewis, an elder brother of Jesse, who was killed in a 2012 school mass shooting, was quoted in these reports stating that this brother died in the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting just because of the type of policies Kamala Harris wanted to promote. He said that the presence of the police officer in the school at the time of that shooting could have saved the life of his brother and other victims of the unfortunate tragedy.
Similarly, Ryan Petty, who lost his daughter in the 2018 Stoneman Douglas school shooting, said that Kamala Harris’s presence in the highest office of the land will make schools less secure as he described Harris as “reckless,” and “radical.” Another father, Pollack, whose daughter Meadow Pollack was murdered in the same 2018 shooting, called Harris’s remarks “sickening,” as he also urged for increased presence of law enforcement officers in schools to avoid shootings.
Harris made these controversial comments as part of her campaign to “demilitarize” schools in 2019 when she was still the US Senator and seeking the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination.
She said that the country needs to remove police officers from schools in a bid to demilitarize schools. Harris also emphasized the need to remove inequity in schools, claiming that black and brown students face disproportionate expulsions from the schools.
These comments of Harris came before the murder of George Floyd, which kicked off unprecedented hatred campaigns of Democrats against police officers, leading to blue cities and counties defunding the police. As a result of this, violent crimes surged in numerous blue cities, with many of them ending up reversing their own policies to bring more law enforcement to the streets.
The same year, Harris also propagated his soft-on-crime policy, stating that she had a “plan of action” to reform the US criminal justice system and end “solitary confinement of juveniles.”
Harris has often made headlines for promoting an anti-police agenda. Even before the 2020 George Floyd murder, she backed the BLM’s demand to reduce police funding and instead use it in other community initiatives. She has also been a fiery critic of what she described as “militarizing police.”
The Democratic presidential hopeful has previously endorsed former Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti for reducing the city’s police budget by up to $150 million.
