Barr Slams ‘Black Lives Matter,’ Compares Lockdown to Slavery
- Attorney general says BLM group just wants political ‘props’
- Barr ramps up efforts to bolster Trump’s ‘law and order’ image
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The Black Lives Matter movement doesn’t care about Black lives but instead wants to use African Americans who were killed at the hands of police as “props” to advance its political agenda, Attorney General William Barr said.
“They’re not interested in Black lives, they’re interested in props,” Barr said Wednesday night at an event on constitutional law in Arlington, Virginia. “A small number of Blacks were killed by police during conflict with police -- usually less than a dozen a year -- who they can use as props to achieve a much broader political agenda.”