Sen. Tim Scott hit back at critics who say he was chosen to lead the effort to write police reform legislation by Senate GOP members because he's a "token" black Republican.
On Wednesday, Scott criticized anyone who tweeted suggestions that he will act as a black puppet for white Republicans.
“Not surprising the last 24 hours have seen a lot of ‘token’ ‘boy’ or ‘you’re being used’ in my mentions,” Scott tweeted. ‘Let me get this straight...you DON’T want the person who has faced racial profiling by police, been pulled over dozens of times, or been speaking out for YEARS drafting this?”
Scott met with McConnell on Tuesday to discuss the legislation, which the South Carolina Senator said would include a “notification act so that we can understand and appreciate the 30,000-plus no knocks that happen around the country to see where they’re happening so we have more information.”
It will also contain the anti-lynching bill that Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., held up last week in the Senate.
For anyone who did call Scott a token black Republican, he pointed to Sen. Kamala Harris and Sen. Cory Booker as examples of the lack of diversity in the Democrat party.
“And don’t throw ‘you’re the only black guy they know’ at me either,” Scott tweeted. “There are only two black Democratic Senators, stop pretending there’s some huge racial diversity gap in the Senate. Ask my Dem colleagues what their staffs look like...I guarantee you won’t like the answer.”
The other Republican senators who will hammer out the bill include South Carolina Sen. Lindsay Graham, Nebraska Sen. Ben Sasse, Oklahoma Sen. James Lankford, Texas Sen. John Cornyn and West Virginia Sen. Shelley Moore Capito.
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