Democrat Beto O’Rourke attacks police as ‘the new Jim Crow’ just days after praising cops
A shocking video shows Rep. Beto O’Rourke (D-Tex.) comparing police officers to those who implemented racist Jim Crow laws of the post-Civil War South.
“Shooting that person solely based on the color of their skin”
O’Rourke, who is challenging Republican Senator Ted Cruz for one of Texas’ seats in the U.S. Congress, was speaking to a HBCU town hall in Prairie View, Texas, when he made the stinging comments against the police.
“We’re talking about criminal justice reform,” O’Rourke said to the audience, “let’s talk about where this problem started.”
“When contractors needed labor,” he explained, “they would talk to local law enforcement who would arrest African-Americans who were violent or petty crimes frivolous offenses, those contractors would describe the number of bodies that they needed, and law enforcement would provide those bodies.”
“And when they look at the remains,” he claimed, “in that graveyard, they see evidence of muscles literally torn from the bone, people being worked to death in these convict chain gangs.”
“People who became convicts solely by dint of the color of their skin in a system that was radically unjust,” O’Rourke continued.
“The new Jim Crow”
“Following what we thought what was the end of that injustice at the end of the civil war, that injustice,” he added, “too many more people here than I know firsthand, continues to persist today.”
“That system of suspecting somebody solely based on the color,” he continued, “searching that person, solely based on the color their skin, stopping that person solely based on the color of their skin, shooting that person solely based on the color of their skin, throwing the book at that person, letting them rot behind bars, solely based on the color of their skin.”
“It is why some have called this,” he concluded, “I think it is an apt description, the new Jim Crow.”
https://www.theblaze.com/news/2018/09/19/democrat-beto-orourke-attacks-police-as-the-new-jim-crow-just-days-after-praising-cops
He'll need a padded room at Gitmo!