'An abuse of power': alarm grows over AG Bill Barr directing force at protesters

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

In a rare wave of accountability for police brutality in the United States in recent weeks, four police officers were arrested in Minneapolis, a police chief was fired in Louisville, and officers were charged with felony assault in Atlanta, Buffalo and New York City.

Now the top law enforcement official in the country, the attorney general, William Barr, is facing an internal crisis of confidence and growing calls for his own resignation.

Barr stands accused of directing violence against peaceful demonstrators outside the White House earlier this month, and with peddling a conspiracy theory advanced by Donald Trump in an attempt to smear protesters, who enjoy wide public support.

In the first 16 months of his tenure, Barr caught criticism for compromising justice department independence with his seemingly lockstep defense of Trump, whether he was protecting the president from the investigation of special counsel Robert Mueller or intervening in criminal cases against the former Trump aides Michael Flynn and Roger Stone.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/abuse-power-alarm-grows-over-090246219.html

[leftieNanner]

1. We know this is bad policy

And even bad behavior.

But has Barr done anything indictable? Yet?

Asking for a friend...........

[Volaris]

4. not specifically, HOWEVER...

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The former federal judge (Gleeson?) tasked with filing an amicus brief in Flynn's case tore Barr a new asshole in that brief, saying his trying to drop the charges was a 'gross abuse of prosecutorial power'.

So that's nice.

[soothsayer]

2. But the bully (as we've learned) Barr has denied

... that he was the one who ordered it.

Gave that weak as water “gee whiz, it was my decision to move the perimeter but I don’t know how all that other stuff happened” defense.

[scipan]

3. Impeach.

Seriously, he needs to be impeached. The house can't stand by.