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A25 U.S. NEWS WEDNESDAY 12 AUGUST 2020 Biden selects California Sen. Kamala Harris as running mate Continued from Front Dodd, still harbors concerns about the debate and that Harris joins Biden in the Harris hadn’t expressed 2020 race at a moment of regret. The comments at- unprecedented national tributed to Dodd and first crisis. The coronavirus pan- reported by Politico drew demic has claimed the condemnation, especially lives of more than 150,000 from influential Democratic people in the U.S., far more women who said Harris was than the toll experienced being held to a standard in other countries. Business that wouldn’t apply to a closures and disruptions re- man running for president. sulting from the pandemic Some Biden confidants have caused an economic said Harris’ campaign at- collapse. Unrest, meanw- tack did irritate the former hile, has emerged across vice president, who had the country as Americans a friendly relationship with protest racism and police her. Harris was also close brutality. with Biden’s late son, Beau, Trump’s uneven handling who served as Delaware of the crises has given Bi- attorney general while she den an opening, and he held the same post in Ca- enters the fall campaign lifornia. But Biden and Har- in strong position against In this Nov. 8, 2019, file photo, then-Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Kamala Harris, ris have since returned to a the president. In adding D-Calif., reacts as she speaks at a town hall event at the Culinary Workers Union in Las Vegas. warm relationship. Harris to the ticket, he can Associated Press “Joe has empathy, he has point to her relatively cen- lanta Mayor Keisha Lance first election in 2003 when attracted 20,000 people to a proven track record of trist record on issues such as Bottoms, whose passionate she became San Francis- her first campaign rally in leadership and more than health care and her back- response to unrest in her co’s district attorney. In the Oakland. ever before we need a ground in law enforcement city garnered national at- role, she created a reentry But the early promise of president of the United Sta- in the nation’s largest state. tention.Rice congratulated program for low-level drug her campaign eventually tes who understands who Harris’ record as California Harris on her selection, cal- offenders and cracked faded. Her law enforce- the people are, sees them attorney general and dis- ling her a “tenacious and down on student truancy. ment background promp- where they are, and has a trict attorney in San Francis- trailblazing leader.” Rice She was elected Califor- ted skepticism from some genuine desire to help and co was heavily scrutinized said she would support Bi- nia’s attorney general in progressives, and she st- knows how to fight to get during the Democratic pri- den and Harris “with all my 2010, the first woman and ruggled to land on a con- us where we need to be,” mary and turned off some energy and commitment.” Black person to hold the sistent message that reso- Harris said at an event for liberals and younger Black Bass tweeted, “@Kamala- job, and focused on issues nated with voters. Facing Biden earlier this summer. voters who saw her as out Harris is a great choice for including the foreclosure fundraising problems, Harris At the same event, she of step on issues of systemic Vice President. Her tena- crisis. She declined to de- abruptly withdrew from the bluntly attacked Trump, la- racism in the legal system cious pursuit of justice and fend the state’s Proposition race in December 2019, beling him a “drug pusher” and police brutality. She relentless advocacy for the 8, which banned same-sex two months before the first for his promotion of the tried to strike a balance people is what is needed marriage and was later votes of the primary were malaria drug hydroxychlo- on these issues, declaring right now.” overturned by the U.S. Su- cast. One of Harris’ stan- roquine as a treatment for herself a “progressive pro- A woman has never served preme Court. dout moments of her pre- the coronavirus, which has secutor” who backs law as president or vice presi- As her national profile sidential campaign came not been proved to be an enforcement reforms. dent in the United States. grew, Harris built a repu- at the expense of Biden. effective treatment and Biden, who spent eight Two women have been no- tation around her work as During a debate, Harris said may even be more harm- years as President Barack minated as running mates a prosecutor. After being Biden made “very hurtful” ful. After Trump tweeted Obama’s vice president, on major party tickets: De- elected to the Senate in comments about his past “when the looting starts, has spent months weighing mocrat Geraldine Ferraro 2016, she quickly gained work with segregationist the shooting starts” in res- who would fill that same in 1984 and Republican Sa- attention for her assertive senators and slammed his ponse to protests about role in his White House. He rah Palin in 2008. Their party questioning of Trump ad- opposition to busing as the death of George Floyd, pledged in March to select lost in the general election. ministration officials during schools began to integrate a Black man, in police cus- a woman as his vice pre- The vice presidential pick congressional hearings. In in the 1970s. tody, Harris said his remarks sident, easing frustration carries increased signifi- one memorable moment “There was a little girl in Ca- “yet again show what ra- among Democrats that cance this year. If elected, last year, Harris tripped up lifornia who was a part of cism looks like.” the presidential race would Biden would be 78 when Attorney General William the second class to integra- Harris has taken a tougher center on two white men in he’s inaugurated in Janu- Barr when she repeatedly te her public schools, and stand on policing since their 70s. ary, the oldest man to ever pressed him on whether she was bused to school Floyd’s killing. She co-spon- Biden’s search was expan- assume the presidency. Trump or other White House every day,” she said. “And sored legislation in June sive, including Massachu- He’s spoken of himself as officials pressured him to in- that little girl was me.” that would ban police from setts Sen. Elizabeth Warren, a transitional figure and vestigate certain people. Shaken by the attack, Bi- using chokeholds and no- a leading progressive, Flori- hasn’t fully committed to Harris launched her presi- den called her comments knock warrants, set a natio- da Rep. Val Demings, who- seeking a second term in dential campaign in early “a mischaracterization of nal use-of-force standard se impeachment prosecu- 2024. If he declines to do 2019 with the slogan “Ka- my position.” and create a national tion of Trump won plaudits, so, his running mate would mala Harris For the Peop- The exchange resurfaced police misconduct regis- California Rep. Karen Bass, likely become a front-run- le,” a reference to her recently one of Biden’s clo- try, among other things. who leads the Congressio- ner for the nomination that courtroom work. She was sest friends and a co-chair It would also reform the nal Black Caucus, former year. Born in Oakland to a one of the highest-profile of his vice presidential vet- qualified immunity system Obama national security Jamaican father and In- contenders in a crowded ting committee, former that shields officers from adviser Susan Rice and At- dian mother, Harris won her Democratic primary and Connecticut Sen. Chris liability.q A26 WEDNESDAY 12 AUGUST 2020 U.S. NEWS Lack of body cameras fuels suspicion in Chicago shooting By DON BABWIN street interfacing with the Associated Press public on a regular ba- CHICAGO (AP) — A police sis who don't have body force with a history of bru- cameras." But those com- tality and racism created a ments after another police new crime-fighting team, shooting do little to ad- but on one of its first forays dress suspicions in the city, into the streets, the group both about the kind of units did not wear body cam- Brown has created and the eras, which would have department as a whole. shown whether a man ac- More than a decade ago, cused of firing a gun at of- another citywide crime- ficers was, in fact, armed. fighting unit called the That's where the Chicago Special Operations Section Police Department finds it- was disbanded after an in- self in the wake of a police vestigation revealed mem- shooting of a Black man bers were robbing drug that prompted hundreds of dealers and committing vandals to descend on the home invasions and other city's famed Magnificent crimes. Other units were dis- Mile shopping area, where banded after Mayor Rahm they smashed store win- Emanuel took office amid dows and made off with concerns that their tactics everything from clothing to Chicago Police Cmdr. Ernest Cato, center, and other officers responds to reports of rioting and sowed more public mistrust. cash registers. items being stolen from stores, on the West Side of Chicago on Monday afternoon, Aug. 10, 2020. After Allen was shot on Sun- Associated Press Latrell Allen, 20, appeared day, activists immediately in court Tuesday on charg- COPA, has not found video has pointed to its rollout of cameras to that team and seized on the news that the es of attempted murder that shows Allen was car- body cameras as among another similar group was officers were not wearing and was ordered held on rying a gun, spokesman the most extensive of any a priority under the 2021 body cameras.

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