There was a program that might have stopped Dallas and Baton Rouge—and Republicans shut it down

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There was a program that might have stopped Dallas and Baton Rouge—and Republicans shut it down
Jul 25, 2016



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As the right-wing outrage machine would have it, the shootings of police in Dallas and Baton Rouge by U.S. military veterans were the fault of President Obama. “How many law enforcement and people have to die because of a lack of leadership in our country?” Trump recently wrote in a Tweet.

As it turns out, those law enforcement officials may have died because of an actual lack of leadership. In Congress.

... seven years ago, when a little-known division in the new president’s Department of Homeland Security sought to explore the potential violence of returning veterans—one that might have aided local law enforcement with intelligence in Dallas and Baton Rouge—it was Congressional Republicans who succeeded in pushing to shut the program down.

Why did Republicans cut off the funds? Because they didn’t like how the results of those studies implicated right-wing groups in generating an environment of fear and distrust.

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