From The Tribune staff reports
MONTGOMERY — Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall and Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry are heading up an effort to garner support from Congress for law enforcement.
Eleven states’ Attorneys General joined in on a letter to Congressional leadership calling on lawmakers to join them in tempering anti-police rhetoric.
“As the chief law enforcement officers of our states, along with law enforcement partners, we write to express our unwavering support for law enforcement across the country and to ask for your assistance in tempering the anti-police rhetoric that is jeopardizing the safety of our officers,” the letter states. “We especially rely on you, as leaders of the most important legislative body in the world, to discourage disinformation and to help us restore the country’s faith in the overwhelming majority of law-enforcement officers who perform their jobs honorably and bring stability to our cities and states.”
In the letter, the Attorneys General mentioned the death of George Floyd.
“The tragic and preventable death of George Floyd at the hands of four Minneapolis police officers shined a national spotlight on bad actors within the law enforcement profession,” the AG’s said. “At the same time, data simply does not support claims that law enforcement is systemically racist or structurally biased. Despite the lack of available evidence to support the anti-police narrative, it proliferates and has spawned radical reactions such as the current calls to “defund the police,” as well as increases in violence against police—ranging from assaults to murders.”
To read the AGs’ Letter in full, click this link.