'Who's Better Than Rand Paul on Racial Injustice Issues'?
When Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) took his nascent presidential campaign to South Carolina yesterday, MSNBC host Rachel Maddow castigated him for not specifically talking about the fatal police shooting of Walter Scott during his speech at the U.S.S. Yorktown. Maddow, via Mediaite:
"It’s gonna be really interesting to see how long does he get to keep getting credit for being a brave criminal justice reformer when he walks into the epicenter of a huge national discussion about race and criminal justice reform and he has absolutely nothing to say about it.”
I know I would have preferred it if Paul had in fact commented on the killing during his main speech (which was mostly devoted to foreign policy and defense issues). But Maddow is wrong to say that Paul didn't comment on the Scott shooting while in South Carolina.
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