It’s Official: Tina Smith Lied

June 27, 2020

EAGAN, Minn. — U.S. Senate candidate Jason Lewis released the following statement after Senator Tina Smith voted to block Senator Tim Scott’s police reform bill.

“For weeks now, Senator Tina Smith has been egging on violent vandals and lawbreakers with her irresponsible and inflammatory rhetoric. And then, when she isn’t claiming the state of Minnesota is racist or saying there is something ‘dangerously wrong with the role police play in our society’, she has been hiding behind tepid denials to avoid addressing calls to abolish entire police departments. Well, the cat is out of the bag: Tina Smith lied.

We now know that Tina Smith’s vague statements on how we need to ‘reimagine policing’ was all a ruse because, this week, she blocked a police reform bill from being debated in the Senate, even with Democrat amendments included. Senator Tim Scott and Congressman Pete Stauber’s JUSTICE Act offers real solutions that would help root out the bad cops, while supporting the good men and women of law enforcement. It would ensure equal justice and introduce better training and accountability for police officers. But Tina Smith wouldn’t even consider the bill. I think this tells us all we need to know. There can no longer be any doubt that Tina Smith has thrown her lot in with radicals like Ilhan Omar that are backing the mob and demanding we defund the police.

Democrats have a choice to make. They can either take up common sense reforms, or they can side with radical anarchists who want to abolish the police and ‘reimagine’ them as social workers and community organizers. Sadly, Tina Smith has chosen the latter.”

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