Attorney General Bill Barr said Sunday that he does not believe that there is systemic racism in the nation’s police force, contradicting a staggering body of evidence that shows racial bias in virtually every part of the American criminal justice system.
“I think there’s racism in the United States still, but I don’t think that the law enforcement system is systemically racist,” Barr told CBS’s Face the Nation on Sunday.
“I do not think that we have a systemic racism problem with law enforcement officers across this country,” Wolf said on ABC News’ This Week.
The comments from Barr, Wolf, Carson and O’Brien come amid nationwide protests against the violent deaths of Floyd and other people of color at the hands of police.
, a former police chief, responded to Wolf’s comments in an interview with ABC News on Sunday, insisting, “We have a lot of work to do, and systemic racism is always the ghost in the room.”
