During Tuesday’s unnecessary hearing, U.S.
law enforcement has an unbroken history of deprioritizing, if not outright aiding, white supremacist movements. Not that the police should be let off the hook for the right’s pernicious priorities. The Intercept reported last month, based on leaked law enforcement documents, that while the Trump administration has sought to demonize and target antifa, reports amassed of deadly white supremacist violence and substantive threats - including to the police themselves. Mazie Hirono, D-Hawaii, made numerous attempts to change the afternoon’s focus onto a more worthy target - deadly white supremacist violence - to little avail.įor the government to ignore white supremacist violence and focus instead on the far left is nothing new. The hearing was just the latest stage for baseless overtures on the threat of the far left. This did not stop Cruz raising the killing again later in the hearing, once again within the context of a blustering speech about antifa. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., pointed out Cruz’s error after the Texas Republican’s first mention of Underwood, noting that the killer was on the far right.
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