Democrats are police reform hypocrites who would rather have the issue than solutions

 Washington Examiner:

On ABC’s This Week on Sunday, Democratic Sen. Heidi Heitkamp of North Dakota gave unwitting evidence of the hypocritical hardball her party so often plays in Congress, without challenge from the media.

The topic was reform of policing and criminal justice. Pressed to demonstrate bipartisanship on the subject, Heitkamp volunteered that “Sen. Tim Scott is a hero” and then elaborated for another minute or so on how helpful the black Republican senator from South Carolina has been on the issue.

Here's the problem: Just as did all but three Democratic senators, Heitkamp voted last year to sustain a filibuster against Scott’s diligent effort to pass a police reform bill containing elements with strong support across the political spectrum. Scott and Republican leaders said his bill would be open to a vote on any amendment that Democrats wanted to offer, and Scott said he would support some of those amendments. Independent Sen. Angus King of Maine, who caucuses with Democrats, said Scott’s bill was solid and that killing Scott’s bill would destroy any chance of immediate reform. Yet Heitkamp and 44 other Democrats voted to block floor debate on Scott's bill from the beginning.

Worse, Senate Democratic Majority Whip Richard Durbin of Illinois, using the racially charged word with which liberals often describe black conservatives, dismissed Scott’s strenuous, open-hearted work as a “token, half-hearted approach.” (Durbin later apologized, but many observers believe he knew exactly how he was advancing the “token” slur.) House Speaker Nancy Pelosi piled on by describing Scott’s good-faith bill as “trying to get away with murder, actually — the murder of George Floyd.”

If Heitkamp and her fellow Democrats admire Scott’s work on this issue so much that they consider him a hero, why did they smear him and block all debate on his bill when it really mattered? Last week, President Joe Biden said that “it shouldn’t take a whole year to get [police reform] done.” Funny: We looked in vain last year for soon-to-be Democratic presidential nominee Biden urging his fellow Democrats to work in a bipartisan fashion with Scott. The delay of a year is as much Biden’s fault as anyone’s.

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The Democrats would rather stir the pot than work on a bipartisan solution.  The Democrats are total hypocrites so far in dealing with the issue.  They see George Floyd's death as an excuse for rallying theri base.  They are just using him.