FBI Chief Again Says Ferguson Having Chilling Effect on Law Enforcement
Once again we have a public official positing that what they feel should be true is actually true in a total vacuum of any facts or evidence to prove it. Thus continues the dangerous demagoguery of our anti-scientific age.
Twice in recent days, FBI Director James B. Comey has stepped to a podium here and asserted that police across the nation are reluctant to aggressively enforce the law in the post-Ferguson era of smartphones and YouTube.
And twice his comments have drawn disagreement and derision from a host of sources, including civil rights activists, law enforcement officials and, on Monday, the White House.
“The available evidence at this point does not support the notion that law enforcement officers around the country are shying away from fulfilling their responsibilities,” White House press secretary Josh Earnest said Monday at a news briefing in Washington. “The evidence that we’ve seen so far doesn’t support the contention that law enforcement officials are somehow shirking their responsibility.”
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