The ugly truth about Kamala Harris’s law-enforcement record

As the mainstream media feverishly conspire with Vice President Kamala Harris’s presidential campaign to memory hole the candidate’s far-left track record of radical progressive positions, it is important to highlight exactly where the former California attorney general truly stands on matters of public safety and policing. The Harris campaign’s reductive bumper sticker slogan defines race as pitting "prosecutor versus felon" – despite fact that much of America senses the prosecutions of former President Donald Trump to be politically motivated. Concurrent with this destruction of norms, the gas-lit redefining of Harris as "law and order" proponent is underway.  

And yet even a cursory review of her record easily refutes the attempted remaking. We certainly recall her debate stage encounter with former Rep. Tulsi Gabbard during the 2020 Democratic primary. Gabbard’s complete evisceration of Harris’s record as attorney general effectively drove Harris from the race, without earning a single vote, before the Iowa caucuses.  

But with President Joe Biden having been forced off the top spot on the ticket — victim of internecine knifing by his own party – Harris has now been gifted coronation as Democrats’ next-generation heroine.  

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But let us not forget her own statements and actions that appear counter to her latest rebranding. Vice President Harris has a most complicated history with law enforcement. Here are some six exceedingly troubling instances lending credence to her connection to ongoing "war on cops.":  

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Then, while vice president in 2021, Harris shamefully smeared Customs and Border Patrol agents on horseback who encountered Haitian migrants attempting to illegally cross border by alluding to the baseless and patently offensive, partisan charge that agents were "whipping" migrants. She also joined "The View" to relate to her sympathetic audience that the scene "evoked" images of slavery. 

In closing, Kamala Harris’s quest for patronage helped fuel the current national divide. Despite serving seven years as district attorney in San Francisco and as California’s attorney general for six years, we cannot reconcile her record.  Her reckless words promote false narrative that police ranks are rife with "White supremacists" who seek to hunt down and murder young men of color for sport. 

Recall the assassins’ motivations behind recent targeting of cops in New York City and Dallas to understand just how much words matter. Despite any statistical sleight-of-hand regarding crime data, our cities are now more dangerous. In 2024, a cop is shot every 22 hours. All while demonization of police and support for failed policies like bail reform, sanctuary cities, and defund movement continue to destroy public order. Can we really trust Kamala Harris to keep us safe?  

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