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US President Donald Trump and William Barr were criticized by Kamala Harris. The Democratic vice-presidential candidate Kamala Harris said President Trump and Attorney General William Barr live in an alternate reality from the rest of America when they say there is no systemic racism in the United States. She informed CNN’s Dana Bash in an interview and said, “I think that Donald Trump and Bill Barr are spending full time in a different reality. The reality of America today is what we have seen over generations and frankly since our inception. Which are we do have two systems of justice in America, one for white people and another for minorities”.

A reporter asked Trump (the only two black people on the dais, local pastors James and Sharon Ward at a roundtable event in Kenosha, Wisconsin) if they believed police violence was a systemic issue. President said, “I don’t believe that. I think the police do an incredible job, and I think you do have some bad apples”. Point to be noted that Kenosha was the site of several anti-police brutality protests last month, which devolved into pockets of rioting and looting, as tensions flared over the police shooting of 29-year-old Jacob Blake. Harris said in her interview following Blake’s shooting that she believes charges should be considered in a very serious way and that there should be accountability.

Last week, Attorney General William Barr said he doesn’t believe there are two justice systems. He said the claims of systemic racism in law enforcement are overblown. Barr said, “I think the narrative that the police are on some, you know, epidemic of shooting unarmed black men is simply a false narrative and also the narrative that that’s based on race. The fact of the matter is it’s very rare for an unarmed African American to be shot by a white police officer”. A significant amount of data has shown that black people are far more likely to be the victims of unarmed police shootings than people of other races.