Police chiefs take issue with senator's comment
YARMOUTH, Mass. (AP) — Police chiefs in Massachusetts are expressing their frustrations over a recent comment by U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren.
Speaking recently in New Orleans, Louisiana, Warren, a Democrat, called the criminal justice system "racist I mean front to back." She was discussing disproportionate arrests of African-Americans for petty drug possession and state laws that limit convicted felons from voting while at Dillard University.
Yarmouth Police Chief Frank Frederickson called this an insult to the "hard-working men and women of the Yarmouth Police Department" as well as other law enforcement agencies.