At a hearing, Jamie Raskin answers the chairman's line that violence against law enforcement can't be tolerated. He says President Trump pardoned more than 1,500 people en masse, hundreds of whom had violently assaulted police, without reviewing a single individual record. He says the reoffenders have been convicted of crimes including child sexual assault, conspiracy to murder an FBI agent, kidnapping and reckless homicide.
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- Who
- Jamie Raskin
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- hearing - House Judiciary Committee
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The chairman said, violence against law enforcement is wrong, I'm sick of it and we can't tolerate it. And I agree with that. But President Trump pardoned more than 1500 people, hundreds of whom had violently assaulted our police officers, brutalizing them, injuring them, giving them traumatic brain injuries, concussions, heart attacks, strokes, without looking at a single one's individualized records, just pardoning them, all of them, en masse. And guess what? 97 of them have already gone on to reoffend today. They've been convicted of, so far, child sexual assault, home invasion, production of child pornography, conspiracy to murder an FBI agent, kidnapping, reckless homicide, domestic violence by strangulation, stalking, drug trafficking, burglary, and a lot more.
Machine transcript of the clip's audio; names are checked, small words may differ.