Former President Donald Trump's reelection team on Thursday slammed Vice President Kamala Harris for recently uncovered comments from 2019 in which she advocated for the removal of police officers from schools.
In an email sent to supporters, the Trump campaign cited a Fox News article that quoted school shooting victims' families angered by Harris' comments.
"My brother was killed in the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting because of liberal policies like the one Kamala is pushing here," J.T. Lewis, whose younger brother Jesse was murdered at just six-years-old in the 2012 Sandy Hook shooting, said, according to Fox.
"Kamala wants to make schools less safe. Your kids aren't safe with Kamala Harris in office," Ryan Petty, whose 14-year-old daughter Alaina was murdered in the Stoneman Douglas shooting, tweeted in response to the Trump War Room post of Harris' comments.
Harris made the remarks in 2019 when she served as a California senator as part of her pitch to "demilitarize" schools.
"What we need to do about … demilitarizing our schools and taking police officers out of schools. We need to deal with the reality and speak the truth about the inequities around school discipline. Where in particular, Black and Brown boys are being expelled and or suspended as young as, I've seen, as young as in elementary school," Harris said as she was running for president during the 2020 cycle.