WATCH: Cory Booker Tears Into William Barr Over Racial Bias
Trump's Attorney General Nominee didn't know what hit him when Senator Cory Booker nailed him to the wall on his use of racist language, and appalling lack of interest and awareness of facts and statistics surrounding race and incarceration. When Sen. Booker brought up the issue in the first round of questioning at yesterday's hearings, Barr came right out of the gate talking about "violent gangs in the city, killing people, murder and so forth." He emphasized that the easiest way to take gangs off the streets is to bring them up on drug trafficking charges, and that of course, the murders in Chicago, for example (Chicago. Always Chicago. And Baltimore.) are related to gangs...
Booker stopped him in his tracks.
BOOKER: Those are the tropes that make people believe that in inner cities, we should have such profound incarceration rates...It's language like that that makes me kind of concerned and worried.