Congressional Republicans are criticizing House Democratic Whip Katherine Clark for failing to condemn violence against police after her 23-year-old daughter was charged with assaulting an officer during an anti-police demonstration in Boston.
After the Massachusetts Democrat called the episode “a very difficult time in the cycle of joy and pain in parenting,” a spokesman for the House Republicans’ campaign committee noted that the statement of the second-ranking leader of the House Democratic caucus didn’t say anything about violence targeting law enforcement personnel.
“We already knew Democrats were the party of ‘defund the police.’ Still, it’s shocking to see in black and white a Democratic Party so extreme [that] its leaders are incapable of saying violence against cops is wrong,” said Will Reinert, national press secretary for the National Republican Congressional Committee.