Biden’s DOJ continues to defend bad cops and wrongful convictions
26 January 2022
26 January 2022
During the George Floyd protests, then-presidential candidate Joe Biden forcefully condemned the violent eviction of protesters from D.C.'s Lafayette Square just before President Donald Trump’s photo op at St. John’s Church. Biden declared that the police had violated the First Amendment and decried the “violence that’s being done by the incumbent president to our democracy and to the pursuit of justice.” But last summer, Biden’s Justice Department successfully argued that Trump, former attorney general William P. Barr and the officers who cleared the park should be immune from civil liability. That wasn’t an anomaly for Biden’s first year in office. ...