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  Big government murders a citizen. Vice president attends funeral. Expect outrage from "small government" Republicans in 3, 2, 1...
context: I sure wish elected officials didn’t need to include so many funerals and visits to sites of recent tragedy within their busy schedules. It’s a necessity considering the evils we’re dealing with at hand. It’d be great if the root causes were actually addressed so that political leaders could focus more on their main priorities. 
  Enough is enough. >
  
  Well politician can spend the time to address the root cause but they go to funeral for a photo-op and a sound bite. 
  She couldnt do anything of use by being there. She could do plenty of things in her office to come up with reforms so that such things could be avoided >
  
  Or she could do both. Being there will bring more attention to the matter which is needed in order to bring change. >
  
  It also helps to keep these events real for the politicians. When stuff like this is going on, the last thing I want is for those in the highest positions to become disconnected from these struggles and tragedies because they're always so far away.
  Hiding away in your private tower and never involving yourself in these tragedies is how you breed the kind of disconnect and contempt for your average person found in the former president. >
  
  Honestly, I’m not a fan of celebrities or politicians attending funerals that receive national attention. The family was thrust into the spotlight based on a gruesome killing. Let them grieve in peace. There will be so much security at the event. >
  
  The family invited her. >
  
  Good for her. I'm glad Democrats are able to recognize and condemn police brutality. I wish all our politicians would do so. >
  
  She is an ex-prosecutor that put innocent people in jail and over charged people.  It is inappropriate for her to show up here. >
  
  No it’s not.
  Memphis is a majority African-American city and police brutality (and Black Lives Matter) is an important issue for Memphians. If you think the Black Vice-President showing paying her respects to the family of a young African-American father is inappropriate, I suggest you open your eyes and change your worldview.
  Almost twenty years ago I went to the funeral of an elderly family friend (in Memphis BTW). During the service, the pastor read a note about a call from the President of the United States. I didn’t ef with George W. Bush (and this was pre-Katrina) and I’m sure neither did most of the people in the church (full of Black folks), but it was still something that the POTUS reached out (her son was a was a pastor who supported Bush in another part of the country). >
  
  Kamala is not a BLM supporter; she supports cops and has a track record to prove this.
  Stop lying about verifiable facts.  Plenty of black people act like republicans, claiming kamala can't be bad for black rights is an obvious lie.  She can and is. No one is going to claim clarence thomas is a supporter of black rights just because he is black. He happily threw out major voting regulations that preserved the rights of minorities. >
  
  Kamala is a republican according to the way she conducted herself as a prosecutor.
  Her selection was a joke and still is.
  
  Are you a Black American?
  
  Oh, now you want to use racism as a shield from your wrong ideas?  The race of the person telling the truth does not matter.  The truth matters.  Trying to discount the fact with racism is extremely racist, so congrats on being racist. >
  
  So no, you aren’t a Black American.
  So I have a non-Black person telling me, a Black person, that another Black person isn’t properly looking out for the interests of Black people like me.
  I’ll pass.
  You one of those folks who says Barack Obama was a horrible president too?
  Edit:
  Lemme add… a Black Memphian, who has crossed the intersection where Tyre Nichols was stopped, many times. >
  
  
  So no, you aren’t a Black American.
  
  How do you know?  This is just more bullshitting from you.  Do you ever state anything factual or do you lie about everything?
  It is clear you don't know how facts even work. >
  
  Kamal Harris the the top law enforcement officer of the nation’s most populous state and also the most corrupt police force. Man gtfoh. >
  
  "Kamal Harris the the top law enforcement officer of the nation’s most populous state and also the most corrupt police force. Man gtfoh."
  District Attorney of San Francisco (2004–2011) ? thats not the top law enforcement nor does it have direct oversight of the police at all even in San Francisco.
  As AG for california, yes she was in charge. yes, California is most populous. can you provide any kind of evidence that it is per capita the most corrupt?
  During her terms as AG, I don't recall seeing any new of the police in Califonia using a false premise for a traffic stop as an excuse to beat a man to death in the streets. during those years I recall furgeson, but thats not CA.  
  Man, GTFOH. >
  
  She withheld exculpatory evidence from death row inmates and held prisoners beyond their sentences to use as slave labor fighting wildfires. >
  
  Bruh your own links say it’s true >
  
  Both of my links say your claims are false. >
  
  Did you actually read them? In the first the guy literally won a law suit against the state for falsifying evidence and the second she pretends that she didn’t know the people under her were holding prisoners past their sentences. >
  
  
  In the first the guy literally won a law suit against the state for falsifying evidence
  
  which had literally nothing to do with Kamala Harris. 
  
  the second she pretends that she didn’t know the people under her were holding prisoners past their sentences.
  
  They weren't holding people past their sentences. Some lawyers argued in court that they should be able to, but Kamala didn't know they tried that argument and shut them down when she heard about it. >
  
  Is there an active campaign to smear kamala before her run for president? The comments in this thread are so angry they obviously miss the point.
  Why is she going? Because trump told people to essentially fuck off when cops killed people, potentially exciting and leading to the rioting we saw. the Biden administration is trying to appear like they care, in hopes that doing so reduces/prevents rioting.
  Pretty straightforward. >
  
  Has it ever occurred to you that people just don't like her? They didn't like her when she was running, didn't like her when she was chosen as Biden's VP, didn't like her when they won, and still don't like her now.
  Do you expect that to change just because she showed up to someone's funeral? She's a bad candidate, a bad politician, and an even worse leader. People expressing the same opinion of her now that they've always held isn't a "smear campaign". >
  
  oh yes, i don't like her. but i still find the vitriol over the top. >
  
  I think people are feeling a Kamala 2024 run, and given the DNC's tendency to choose the absolute worst candidate to shove down our throats because it's "their turn", everyone is trying to make their opinions known before we repeat that mistake.
  Kamala will not win the presidency, but I guarantee she'll have the support of the party if she tries. >
  
  i don't disagree, but people seem to be conflating her going to the funeral, a very human, and if you ask me, calculated decision by the administration, with her failures before, it just feels a bit too overt.
  the correct response is, "while i know its just a publicity stunt, i hope Kamala's presence at the funeral changes the conversation so that something, anything, can get done, regardless of her past". 
  hey, at least she came out of hiding to take a hit, they've had here locked up in the dungeon for fear she'll be connected and tainted by the current administration, so as to roll her out as special and new in '24.  
  but again, I agree with you, she had 5% in the last primary when she bowed out, and i don't think this administration has helped her case.  my bet, klobuchar-buttigieg will be our force fed candidacy. >
  
  Is he one the people she left in jail because she refused dna evidence so that California would have more workers? >
  
  She didn't leave anyone in jail to get more workers. That's some /r/conspriacy junk. >
  
  And what the fuck is she gonna do to stop it from happening again. Showing support for the family is all well and good but it's a hollow gesture from an administration which has no intention of doing anything significant to stop police killings or alleviate the conditions that cause them. More centrist thoughts and prayers bullshit, I'm so sick of it >
  
  So she and her security entourage are going to crash in and take over the funeral......virtue signalling bollocks again. Just do something about police violence Kamala. >
  
  I'm wondering how many funerals these officials will attend in the future if this situation has no solution. >
  
  As much as its a great gesture i think its funny that shes attending considerering the fact that shea reaponsible for keeping innocent black men in prison to protect her record as a DA. She had those men yell out for their mothers (proverbially speaking) and she ignored them. >
  
  She's the type of cop that's being protested. A tough on crime law enforcer who made a career serving cop intrests. >
  
  Who? >
  
  Nope, Not the President.  Sadly, only the substitute is going. 😅 >
  
  She's way more relevant here than he is. >
  
  IF she gives a speech, I hope it's one that is both about Justice and the need for good order in our Society. Injustice on the streets, by whomever, does not lead to a peaceful harmonious Society. >
  
  Anyone else have the feeling if Biden runs again that Harris won’t be on the ticket? >
  
  This is about effective at saving lives as the strange Kente cloth production they pulled. What will she actually do about so many of these funerals? Sorry but I find this administration to be a bunch of symbolic fluff when it comes to the blue gang. But die hard centrists will point to this as Kamal connecting with Black voters and deny she's anything but wonderful for this. >
  
  Ah yes. A class traitor former cop that actively aided in the over-policing of other POC.
  That's who you want representing the government at this funeral.