Joe Biden tears into Cory Booker and criticizes Kamala D. Harris as well in a shift to aggressively [View all]

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Joe Biden tears into Cory Booker and criticizes Kamala D. Harris as well in a shift to aggressively counter his challengers 

By Chelsea Janes and David Weigel and Washington Post 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/joe-biden-tears-into-cory-booker-and-criticizes-kamala-d-harris-as-well-in-a-shift-to-aggressively-counter-his-challengers/2019/07/24/8cbf21f0-ae30-11e9-a0c9-6d2d7818f3da_story.html?utm_term=.827456e7fe8d 

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Cory knows that’s not true, number one. Number two, you know the significant portion of the incarceration that occurred before the crime bill was written,” Biden told reporters before taking a shot at police practices during Booker’s tenure. 

“His police department was stopping and frisking people, mostly African American men,” he said, leading the Obama administration to intercede. “We took action against them; the Justice Department took action against them, held the police department accountable. 

“He objected to federal interference. If he wants to go back and talk about records, I’m happy to do that. But I’d rather talk about the future .?.?. I challenge him or anyone else to tell me how he has a better plan than I have for moving from here.” 

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“Since next week’s debate format will give Senator Booker twice as much time to make his attacks than it allows Vice President Biden to respond to them, we thought we would begin to respond now,” Bedingfield wrote. She then outlined Booker’s support for Newark’s police enforcement of a “zero tolerance policy” for minor infractions in 2006, as well as the department’s reliance on “stop and frisk” treatment of residents, a practice that has long been condemned by Democrats and civil rights activists. 


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