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Jasmine Crockett asks Cheatle if Trump shooter was not seen as a threat because he was white

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As Secret Service director Kimberly Cheatle testified before Congress about the assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump, one Democrat lawmaker wondered if race had anything to do with security failures.

When Rep. Jasmine Crockett, D-Texas, questioned Cheatle, her approach was from an angle her colleagues had not broached, bringing up that would-be assassin Thomas Crooks was a “young White male” and that may have factored into why Secret Service did not perceive him as a threat sooner.

“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 and this being a situation that was perceived to be a threat, and it seems as if there’s a different analysis that takes place,” Crockett said. “One of my questions has to do with if you have any bias training that your officers undergo.”

Continuing in her address to Cheatle, Crockett noted her own background as a “civil rights lawyer” in furthering her argument.

“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,” she stated.

“A lot of times, one of the things that we have consistently pushed for on my side of things — and when I say my side, is once we are looking at a tragedy in which law enforcement made an error — it is the bias training and whether or not our officers are getting it,” Crockett said.

“So I’m curious to know, in some of the training that you talk about that is part of your budget, has bias training been part of that?” she asked the Secret Service chief.

“Yes, it is,” Cheatle responded.

Crockett used her time to also push for gun control laws, and pointed to congressional colleagues who are “consistently engaging in violent rhetoric.”

Social media reactions poured in on the Democrat’s highlight of race in the near-assassination of Trump at the Pennsylvania rally on July 13.

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