Dem Rep Who Tried to Pull Trump’s Secret Service Protection Quizzes Secret Service Director About ‘Bias Training’

A Democratic representative who co-sponsored legislation to strip former President Donald Trump of Secret Service protection questioned the director of the Secret Service about “bias training” during a Monday hearing probing the July 13 assassination attempt on the GOP nominee.

{snip} Democratic Rep. Jasmine Crockett of Texas asked Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle instead if Secret Service agents received bias training.

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“I wanna talk about training and I want to talk about the fact that there’s been a little bit of dancing around as it relates to this being a suspicious person {snip}” Crockett asked Cheatle. “One of my questions has to do with if you have have any bias training that your officers undergo and the reason that I ask that is because as a civil rights lawyer, I have learned so many times, in having to deal with law enforcement, that there usually is not a perception of a threat when it is a young white male, even if they are carrying a long gun. Yet a lot of times, at least in this country, when it comes to law enforcement, there is a perceived threat just by somebody having a little bit more melanin in their skin.”

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