During a CNN televised Townhall event, Rubio was asked about his opinion on U.S. race relations in the wake of Americans electing the nation’s first black president. “You talk about race relations, it’s a difficult issue in this country,” Rubio replied, “And I know a lot if it is centered around law enforcement and police departments.”
According to former police Detective Nelson Basquez, “Rubio should have taken the opportunity to slam how the media have created such a division between police and the people they are serving. “The old ‘if it bleeds it leads’ news media slogan is being tweaked to mean if the bleeder is black and the ‘assailant’ is wearing blue, it’s prima facie of a racially-motivated killing,” Basquez said.
Many observers claim that Rubio missed an opportunity demonstrated the real difference between conservatives and progressives. He failed to point out that the relationship between the neighborhood residents and the police has focused on the negative rather than the positive that every cop has noticed when “working the streets.”
Rubio’s statements could easily be taken for those of a left-wing Democrat such as Hillary Clinton or Bernie Sanders: “In this country, a significant number particularly of young African-American males feel as if they are treated differently than the rest of society. And here’s the bottom line: Whether you agree with them or not – I happen to have seen this happen – but whether you agree or not, if a significant percentage of the American family believes that they are being treated differently than everyone else, we have a problem, and we have to address it as a society and as a country. I do not believe we can fulfill our potential as a nation unless we address that.”
Republicans should fear having a national law enforcement figure denigrating their presidential candidate as they have done with statements by Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama and other progressives.
“Mrs. Clinton, who is the subject of an FBI corruption investigation, appears ready to continue President Barack Obama’s cop-bashing that began almost immediately when he was inaugurated. It helps to create division between the races which helps the Democrats to win elections,” said former police detective and U.S. Marine Sid Franes, one of the nation’s first African American major-city police detectives.
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