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it's a good thing republicans are't refusing to support and forcing these police chiefs into resignation because that would be racist....
Detroit Chief of Police James Craig blamed lawmakers for caving to “protest pressure” and calling for an investigation into his police force’s tactics for handling protests and riots in the city.
Craig appeared on Fox News on Wednesday and slammed Michigan lawmakers, as well as elected mayors in major U.S. cities where rioters have smashed, looted, and burned while police have taken heat for alleged misconduct. Elected officials such as Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) have pushed for an investigation of Craig’s handling of recent protests.
“This is nothing more than protest pressure,” Craig said on Wednesday. “Some who are in political leadership are folding to the pressure by the protesters, so it’s not by accident that you see the number of chiefs across the country who are leaving in large numbers. They don’t feel supported. The men and women who are on the ground doing this work don’t feel supported. And so it’s really about this pressure. That’s the bottom line.”
In recent weeks, at least half a dozen police chiefs in major American cities have announced their resignations as riots have raged and police undergo intense scrutiny for their tactics. Many of the police chiefs who have resigned are black, such as Seattle’s Carmen Best and La’Ron Singletary of Rochester, New York.
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