Attorney General Bill Barr Denies Nation's Police Are Systemically Racist

Attorney General Bill Barr said Sunday that he does not believe that there is systemic racism in the nation’s police force, contradicting a staggering body of evidence that shows racial bias in virtually every part of the American criminal justice system. Barr’s comments echo sentiments made by others in the Trump administration amid nationwide protests following the death of George Floyd while in police custody. “I think there’s racism in the United States still, but I don’t think that the law enforcement system is systemically racist,” Barr told CBS’s...