Republican Sen. Tim Scott torched House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s “outrageous, sinful” rhetoric against the GOP and its police reform bill Friday in a blistering radio interview.
On Tuesday, as a proposal written by Scott was foundering in the face of a Democratic filibuster threat, Pelosi said that Republicans are “trying to get away with murder, actually. The murder of George Floyd.”
That, Scott said Friday, “was the most outrageous, sinful comment I’ve heard as a public official, period.”
“I thought to myself, ‘How in the world does this woman, standing in front of a $24,000 refrigerator, have the sense to jump into the bottomless pit of race politics? Why in the world would she want to do that?” he told Fox News Radio.
“And it’s simply this: They believe — and I truly believe this — they believe that campaigning on police brutality is more important than solving police reform.”
Congress is at an impasse over police reform after Senate Democrats blocked Scott’s bill, saying it did not go far enough to deal with fallout from Floyd’s death in Minneapolis — and the House passed a bill on a party-line vote that is doomed to die in the other chamber.
Pelosi has been raked for her out-of-touch display of her high-end kitchen appliances packed with pricey artisanal ice cream at the height of the economic agony of the coronavirus shutdowns.
Scott, the Senate’s only black Republican, took the lead on the GOP’s bill while sharing his own wrenching experiences of racial bias at the hands of law enforcement.
“I understand some part of what too many have experienced,” he said on the Senate floor Wednesday. “Justice should be applied equally to all our citizens.”
But Democrats excoriated his bill because it would not have forced a national ban on chokeholds, and because it left the doctrine of qualified immunity – which shields cops from personal liability for their on-the-job conduct – intact.
On Wednesday, Senate Dems filibustered the bill in a 55-45 vote that prevented it from being debated by the full chamber – a result cheered by Pelosi in the days since.
“She’s lived so long in a state of privilege that she has forgotten that it’s the Republican Party that voted more for the Civil Rights-era legislation than the Democrats,” Scott vented Friday.
“She has forgotten so much about reality that she spends too much time in an alternate universe.”
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