As protests endure, Republican lawmakers and President Trump have responded with delayed vows of reform — or at least lip service that shows they’ve realized that the mass unrest is a new political reality
Photo: Getty Images In the first two weeks following the police killing of George Floyd, Republican leaders responded by encouraging the shooting of protestors; calling for the military to deploy to American cities to crack down on “nihilist criminals;” and describing violence at demonstrations initiated by police as “provocation that was created deliberately for national television.”
Arkansas Senator Tom Cotton’s comment on Tuesday is a bold example of the latter phenomenon. On Tuesday, Cotton reportedly told fellow Republican senators that “Young black men have a very different experience with law enforcement in this nation than white people and that’s their impression and experience and we need to be sensitive to that and do all we can to change it.” Cotton’s understanding of the black “impression” of police brutality in a country where African-American men are 2.
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