Name: Why did Kamala Harris withhold support for special investigations of police shootings? |Fact Checker
Uploaded: 2020-03-08T21:31:05.000Z
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you opposed legislation that would have required your office

to investigate fatal shootings involving police officers.

I had a process, when I was attorney general,

of not weighting in on bills and initiative,

because as attorney general, I had a responsibility

-Senator Harris had a CNN Town Hall event.

At one point, Tapper is delving into her tenure

and that's sort of a tough position to be in as a Democrat,

particularly, because as the attorney general,

and the success of all the police officers in the state.

And, on the other hand, the base voters of the Democratic Party

were really seizing on the issues of police use of force

around the same time that Harris was in office.

One of the criticisms that has been leveled against her

was that she never took a position a bill

when there's a fatal shooting by police officers.

This is the issue when you talk about Ferguson,

when you talk about any number of black men,

usually, who are unarmed, who are shot by police officers.

and the results that happen when you investigate these things.

Harris did not take a position on the bill,

"Why didn't you take a position on this bill?

And Harris said, "Actually, I didn't oppose it.

My job as attorney general meant that I had to write

But you look at the website for the California attorney general,

and we found, like, 20 news releases or more

either in favor or against some kind of measure

So, it didn't add up to us, and we checked with them,

and she gave a response that was not apt."

As it is, California has local district attorneys investigate,

Harris, herself, was the former district attorney

And so she said I was concerned that, you know,

those district attorneys are accountable to local voters.

if something happens that they don't like,

and it's not as easy to make that change, you know,

Her staff -- they walk you through all the nuance,

and it adds up, you know, what they're saying.

because this town hall was one of her first big exposures