Maybe Cops Should Be ‘Pulling Back’

Attorney General William Barr worries that making it easier to sue cops for abusing their powers “would result certainly in police pulling back.” White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany calls the idea a “nonstarter.”

Americans who have watched the horrifying video showing now-former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin kneeling on George Floyd’s neck for nearly nine minutes while ignoring the prone, handcuffed man’s desperate pleas, past the point where he stopped moving and no longer had a detectable pulse, might reasonably conclude that some “pulling back” by police is exactly what we need. And once Americans understand the legally reinforced