His comments came during an Axios interview published Tuesday, in which journalist Mike Allen asked whether there was problem with systemic racism in American policing. "But this idea that we have systemic racism is not accurate in my view," he added. Amid accusations of systemic racism, the Trump administration has repeatedly said that label doesn't apply to U.S. law enforcement. “I don’t agree there’s systemic racism in the police department, generally, in this country,” Attorney General William Barr told Congress last month. Heather Mac Donald, a scholar at the right-leaning Manhattan Institute, has pushed back on the idea of systemic racism.

Source: Fox News August 18, 2020 22:17 UTC