Attorney General William Barr said on Sunday that he does not believe the American law enforcement system is racist, but acknowledged the distrust people in the African-American community have historically had toward law enforcement.
“I think there’s racism in the United States still but I don’t think that the law enforcement system is systemically racist. I understand … the distrust, however, of the African-American community given the history in this country,” Barr said during an interview on CBS’s Face the Nation.
He acknowledged that U.S. institutions “for most of our history” had been explicitly racist but had been undergoing a phase of reform since the 1960s to ensure that they were in line with laws.
When asked whether he thinks the reforms were effective, he replied “I think the reform is a difficult task, but I think it is working and progress has been made.”
“I think one of the best examples is the military. The military used to be [an] explicitly racist institution. And now I think it’s in the vanguard of bringing the races together and providing equal opportunity. I think law enforcement has been going through the same process,” he said.
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