You Will Anyway: Prepare for a politically motivated, tainted police report

Tuesday, November 3, 2020

Prepare for a politically motivated, tainted police report

A judge ruled Monday to allow President Trump’s police panel to publish its report and recommendations as long as it includes a disclaimer that the report was drafted in violation of federal open meeting laws.

U.S. District Judge John Bates, who was appointed by George W. Bush, issued his decision after he temporarily blocked the law enforcement commission from releasing its report last month.

A judge ruled Monday to allow President Trump’s police panel to publish its report and recommendations as long as it includes a disclaimer that the report was drafted in violation of federal open meeting laws.

U.S. District Judge John Bates, who was appointed by George W. Bush, issued his decision after he temporarily blocked the law enforcement commission from releasing its report last month.

Attorney General William Barr announced the policing commission in January to “conduct a modern fresh evaluation of the salient issues affecting American law enforcement and the communities they protect” after Trump issued an executive order, according to previous court documents.

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The report was supposed to be given to the International Association of Chiefs of Police at the group’s annual conference before Bates blocked its release.

The NAACP LDF’s lawsuit claimed that the panel went against FACA by not allowing civil rights groups to provide input at public hearings and by filling the 18-member panel with only law enforcement officials.

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Sherrilyn Ifill, the president and director-counsel of NAACP LDF, told The Hill in a statement that the report is "utterly discredited" and the commission's creation, process, recommendations and release "have all been tainted by the federal district court’s finding of illegality."

"A balanced and fair Commission would never have supported the conclusions of this report, so Attorney General Barr convened a rigged Commission, in violation of federal law, to generate a report that would serve political, rather than valid public safety ends," Ifill said.

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Reuters previously received drafts of the report through public records requests. Those drafts indicated the report calls for more police surveillance powers and due process protections for officers, without discussing systemic racism in law enforcement.

The Hill

Of course it did. It was drafted by law enforcement officials.

I suppose it's at least important that the judge waited until it would have no bearing on the election.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

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