“Says the Obama administration was doing pattern-or-practice investigations of discrimination by police departments and “Donald Trump came in with Jeff Sessions and undid those.”
Kamala Harris
U.S. Senator. in a CNN interview. Claim dated 1 Jun 2020.
PolitiFact rated thisMostly True
What PolitiFact found
Obama’s administration initiated at least 25 investigations into law enforcement agencies. Our review of publicly available information showed that there may have been one under Trump.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Kamala Harris (U.S. Senator) made this claim around 1 June 2020. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 4 June 2020, 3 days later. Its rating was “Mostly True”.
Kamala Harris has 63 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 13 of them false or fake, 40 misleading or mixed and 7 true.
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