{"id":40096,"date":"2020-06-09T00:21:47","date_gmt":"2020-06-09T00:21:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/virusreports.net\/barr-in-fnc-interview-confirms-focused-investigations-of-antifa-hammers-dangerous-push-to-defund-police\/"},"modified":"2020-06-09T00:21:47","modified_gmt":"2020-06-09T00:21:47","slug":"barr-in-fnc-interview-confirms-focused-investigations-of-antifa-hammers-dangerous-push-to-defund-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/virusreports.net\/barr-in-fnc-interview-confirms-focused-investigations-of-antifa-hammers-dangerous-push-to-defund-police\/","title":{"rendered":"Barr, in FNC interview, confirms &#8216;focused investigations&#8217; of Antifa, hammers &#8216;dangerous&#8217; push to defund police"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Speaking exclusively to Fox News&#8217; Bret Baier on Monday outside the Department of Justice,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/person\/william-barr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Attorney General Bill Barr<\/a>\u00a0confirmed that &#8220;focused investigations&#8221; are underway that &#8220;relate to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/what-is-antifa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Antifa<\/a>,&#8221; the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/what-is-antifa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">far-left group<\/a> that President Trump has sought to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/trump-announces-u-s-to-designate-antifa-as-terrorist-organization-following-violent-protests\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">designate<\/a>\u00a0as a terrorist organization.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s a very loosely organized group, and they have an unusual system of communication and organization,&#8221; Barr said. &#8220;There are people who can be characterized as leaders in any given situation.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Also in the wide-ranging interview, Barr harshly criticized <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/minneapolis-mayor-jacob-frey-rejects-city-council-push-to-defund-police\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">efforts<\/a> to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EddieZipperer\/status\/1269951088964370432\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">defund police departments<\/a>, argued that some jurisdictions had gone too far in their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/george-floyd-unrest-big-city-mayors-coronavirus-lockdowns\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">coronavirus lockdown restrictions<\/a>, and defended the U.S. Park Police&#8217;s decision to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/park-police-walk-back-tear-gas-denial-in-lafayette-park-clearing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">clear Lafayette Park<\/a> ahead of a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\/dana-perino-trump-visit-st-johns-church\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">visit<\/a> by the president &#8212; a move that came, Barr told Baier, after the attorney general himself was targeted with rocks and other projectiles.<\/p>\n<p>Determining who is behind the protests has become a top priority for the DOJ, and a political football in the meantime. Former national security adviser Susan Rice has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/susan-rice-suggests-russians-behind-violent-george-floyd-demonstrations\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">claimed<\/a> &#8220;the Russians&#8221; could be involved; Minnesota officials have blamed out-of-state white supremacists, despite <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/susan-rice-suggests-russians-behind-violent-george-floyd-demonstrations\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">evidence<\/a> showing that arrested individuals are overwhelmingly local.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/george-floyd-unrest-big-city-mayors-coronavirus-lockdowns\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">DEMS WHO ENFORCED STRICT\u00a0CORONAVIRUS LOCKDOWNS ARE NOW OKAY WITH &#8216;BLACK LIVES MATTER&#8217;\u00a0PROTESTS<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<div source=\"\">\n<div><picture><source media=\"(max-width: 767px)\" ><source media=\"(min-width: 767px)\" ><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Thousands of people demonstrate in Cologne, Germany, Saturday June 6, 2020, to protest against racism and the recent killing of George Floyd by police officers in Minneapolis, USA. His death has led to Black Lives Matter protests in many countries and across the US. A US police officer has been charged with the death of George Floyd. (AP Photo\/Martin Meissner)\" src=\"https:\/\/a57.foxnews.com\/static.foxnews.com\/foxnews.com\/content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/640\/320\/PGermany1.jpg?ve=1&#038;tl=1\"><\/img><\/source><\/source><\/picture><\/div>\n<p>\n      Thousands of people demonstrate in Cologne, Germany, Saturday June 6, 2020, to protest against racism and the recent killing of George Floyd by police officers in Minneapolis, USA. His death has led to Black Lives Matter protests in many countries and across the US. A US police officer has been charged with the death of George Floyd. (AP Photo\/Martin Meissner)\n      <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Fox News <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/feds-investigating-whether-criminal-actors-exerting-command-and-control-over-unrest-as-bricks-thrown-at-cops\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">reported<\/a> last week that federal law enforcement officials are probing whether &#8220;criminal actors&#8221; are coordinating violent activities during protests over the in-custody death of George Floyd, and are looking into reports that &#8220;rocks and bricks&#8221; have been dropped off to throw at police.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There appear to be sources of funding, and we are looking into the sources of funding,&#8221; Barr said.\u00a0&#8220;And, you know, there is clearly some high degree of organization involved at some of these events and and coordinated tactics that we&#8217;re seeing. And we&#8217;re looking into that as well. And some of it relates to an Antifa. Some of it relates to groups that act very much like Antifa. As I said, there&#8217;s a witches&#8217;\u00a0brew of extremist groups that are trying to exploit this situation on all sides.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/park-police-walk-back-tear-gas-denial-in-lafayette-park-clearing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>PARK POLICE WALKS BACK TEAR-GAS DENIAL<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;There&#8217;s a witches&#8217; brew of extremist\u00a0groups looking to exploit this on all sides.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span>\u2014 Attorney General Bill Barr<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Protests near the White House, Barr observed, had become so violent that the Secret Service <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/secret-service-took-trump-to-underground-bunker-amid-george-floyd-protests\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">moved Trump to the bunker<\/a>\u00a0underneath the White House. The mayhem, which also included the <a href=\"https:\/\/video.foxnews.com\/v\/6160734355001\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">burning of St. John&#8217;s Church<\/a> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/fox-news-crew-harassed-chased-by-angry-mob-while-reporting-on-protests-outside-white-house\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">harassment and assault of a Fox News reporter<\/a>, necessitated action, Barr said &#8212; even though some media organizations have said Lafayette Park was cleared solely for Trump&#8217;s &#8220;photo-op&#8221; near the church.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The image has somewhat been mis-created, in the sense that I haven&#8217;t seen any videos on TV of all the violence that was happening preceding that,&#8221; Barr said. &#8220;I personally saw projectiles thrown, and two were thrown at me and the police officers there. And my security detail made me move back because they said that projectiles had been landing in a certain area &#8212;\u00a0things like rocks, bottles were thrown at me.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/trump-to-resume-campaign-rallies-after-coronavirus-hiatus\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">TRUMP RALLIES TO RESUME<\/a>\u00a0; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/secret-service-took-trump-to-underground-bunker-amid-george-floyd-protests\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">SECRET SERVICE RUSHES TRUMP TO BUNKER AS AGENTS HIT, CAR BOMBS FEARED<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Barr reiterated that the move to clear the park and move the White House perimeter out one block was the right one.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As I&#8217;ve said, the president of the\u00a0United States should be able to walk one block from the White House out to the &#8216;church of presidents,'&#8221; Barr said. &#8220;He should be able to do that. And, you know, this canard that this exercise was done to make that possible is totally false. I don&#8217;t see anything wrong with the president walking over to the church.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Authorities initially insisted tear gas had not been used on those park protesters,\u00a0before <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/park-police-walk-back-tear-gas-denial-in-lafayette-park-clearing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">walking that statement back.<\/a><\/p>\n<div source=\"\">\n<div><picture><source media=\"(max-width: 767px)\" ><source media=\"(min-width: 767px)\" ><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Police stage in Lafayette Park as demonstrators gather to protest the death of George Floyd, Sunday, May 31, 2020, near the White House in Washington. Floyd died after being restrained by Minneapolis police officers (AP Photo\/Alex Brandon)\" src=\"https:\/\/a57.foxnews.com\/static.foxnews.com\/foxnews.com\/content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/640\/320\/8b58cdf0-AP20153101232092.jpg?ve=1&#038;tl=1\"><\/img><\/source><\/source><\/picture><\/div>\n<p>\n      Police stage in Lafayette Park as demonstrators gather to protest the death of George Floyd, Sunday, May 31, 2020, near the White House in Washington. Floyd died after being restrained by Minneapolis police officers (AP Photo\/Alex Brandon)\n      <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Demonstraters, Barr said, have become extreme not only in their actions but also their demands, including\u00a0their\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/minneapolis-mayor-jacob-frey-rejects-city-council-push-to-defund-police\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">push to defund police departments<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Demonizing police&#8221;\u00a0is \u201cwrong\u201d and\u00a0\u201cdangerous,&#8221; Barr asserted.\u00a0&#8220;We put these individuals into highly charged, dangerous situations where their own life is at stake &#8230; and we have to make sure we treat them fairly in those circumstances.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Barr added that it&#8217;s important to understand that there are approximately 900,000 police officers in the country, and that it would be a mistake to view all police forces as a monolith.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/fox-news-crew-harassed-chased-by-angry-mob-while-reporting-on-protests-outside-white-house\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>FOX NEWS REPORTER ASSAULTED OUTSIDE WHITE HOUSE<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Should police be defunded, Barr said, &#8220;You would have increases in vigilantism and increases in chaos in the city.&#8221; Barr added it&#8217;s\u00a0&#8220;been shown&#8221; that more killings would result.<\/p>\n<p>Research by Harvard economist Roland G. Fryer Jr.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/good-policing-saves-black-lives-11591052916\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">has determined<\/a>\u00a0that when police pull out of communities, black deaths tend to increase.\u00a0Frey also found no evidence of racial bias in\u00a0police shootings.<\/p>\n<p>And,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/profile\/zaid-jilani\" rel=\"author\">Zaid Jilani<\/a>\u00a0wrote in The Guardian that Baltimore <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2019\/aug\/01\/uncomfortable-truth-baltimore-democrats-blame\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">saw a brutal rise in murders<\/a> after police pulled back there.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe saw the police department arrest less during a period of high crime,\u201d the Rev. Kinji Scott, a community activist &#8220;who lost a brother and a cousin to homicides in other cities,&#8221; told Jilani. \u201cSo what happened is you have a community of emboldened criminals.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>However, Lisa Bender, the president of the\u00a0Minneapolis City Council, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EddieZipperer\/status\/1269951088964370432\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">dismissed concerns<\/a> from anyone worried about not having police to call &#8212; telling CNN on Monday that they were speaking &#8220;from a place of privilege.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>At the same time, &#8220;the police chiefs, the rank-and-file officers understand the need for change and there has been great change,\u201d Barr said.<\/p>\n<p>The attorney general touted President Trump&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/dozens-of-violent-criminals-have-been-released-under-first-step-act-data-shows\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">First Step Act,<\/a> as well as his push for school choice and the creation of opportunity zones to spur investment in low-income areas.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/dozens-of-violent-criminals-have-been-released-under-first-step-act-data-shows\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>EXCLUSIVE: FIRST STEP ACT RELEASES VIOLENT CRIMINALS<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Barr indicated that the federal government should help set standards that abolish the use of police chokeholds and similar techniques. After kneeling for several minutes, top Democrats on Monday <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2020\/06\/08\/house-democrats-kneel-for-george-floyd-unveil-police-reform-bill\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">introduced<\/a> a sweeping criminal justice reform bill, which includes a limitation on police officers&#8217; qualified\u00a0immunity to certain forms of lawsuits for misconduct on the job.<\/p>\n<p>Critics say qualified immunity, a judge-made doctrine, is necessary to protect police from complaints that would punish officers for reasonably executing their duties in stressful situations, or complaints intended to harass officers. Democrats charge, however, that qualified immunity is a shield for bad behavior and has enabled a culture of misconduct.<\/p>\n<p>The \u201cJustice in Policing Act of 2020\u201d would also establish a registry of police misconduct, and would specifically allow officers to be punished for violating constitutional rights &#8220;knowingly or with reckless disregard.\u201d The federal standard currently requires that officers\u00a0\u201cwillfully&#8221; violate constitutional rights to face prosecution &#8212; a significantly higher standard of proof.<\/p>\n<div source=\"\">\n<div><picture><source media=\"(max-width: 767px)\" ><source media=\"(min-width: 767px)\" ><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of Calif., center, and other members of Congress, kneel and observe a moment of silence at the Capitol's Emancipation Hall, Monday, June 8, 2020, on Capitol Hill in Washington, reading the names of George Floyd and others killed during police interactions. Democrats proposed a sweeping overhaul of police oversight and procedures Monday, an ambitious legislative response to the mass protests denouncing the deaths of black Americans at the hands of law enforcement. (AP Photo\/Manuel Balce Ceneta)\" src=\"https:\/\/a57.foxnews.com\/static.foxnews.com\/foxnews.com\/content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/640\/320\/AP20160583779188.jpg?ve=1&#038;tl=1\"><\/img><\/source><\/source><\/picture><\/div>\n<p>\n      House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of Calif., center, and other members of Congress, kneel and observe a moment of silence at the Capitol&#8217;s Emancipation Hall, Monday, June 8, 2020, on Capitol Hill in Washington, reading the names of George Floyd and others killed during police interactions. Democrats proposed a sweeping overhaul of police oversight and procedures Monday, an ambitious legislative response to the mass protests denouncing the deaths of black Americans at the hands of law enforcement. (AP Photo\/Manuel Balce Ceneta)\n      <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Further, the federal standard for use of force would change from \u201creasonableness\u201d to situations where it is\u00a0\u201cnecessary to prevent death or serious bodily injury.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, the attorney general said, the DOJ was taking a look at jurisdictions&#8217; approach to the coronavirus, amid widespread hypocrisy on the issue &#8212; starting from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/from-new-york-to-canada-to-the-white-house-initial-coronavirus-responses-havent-aged-well\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">early days of the crisis<\/a> to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/george-floyd-unrest-big-city-mayors-coronavirus-lockdowns\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the present.<\/a>\u00a0(Even the man who <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jtLOL\/status\/1270078639657422849\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">dressed as the Grim Reaper<\/a> to condemn beachgoers is <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jtLOL\/status\/1270078639657422849\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">now protesting against police<\/a>.) Barr&#8217;s DOJ has taken steps to fight what it perceives as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/nevada-church-social-distancing-orders-justice-department\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">potentially unconstitutional restrictions<\/a> on religious worship and other gatherings.<\/p>\n<p>The Trump campaign <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/trump-to-resume-campaign-rallies-after-coronavirus-hiatus\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">told Fox News<\/a>\u00a0earlier Monday that the\u00a0president would soon resume his trademark rallies.\u00a0The change-up follows\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/george-floyd-unrest-big-city-mayors-coronavirus-lockdowns\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">statements by many Democrats in charge of big cities<\/a>\u00a0&#8212; including several who once insisted on strict quarantine measures &#8212; championing\u00a0the nationwide mass demonstrations over Floyd&#8217;s death\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/person\/george-floyd\">,<\/a>\u00a0sans social distancing.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/the-myth-of-systemic-police-racism-11591119883\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>WSJ OPINION: THE MYTH OF SYSTEMIC POLICE RACISM<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gfile.thedispatch.com\/p\/the-treason-of-epidemiologists\">Epidemiologists<\/a>, too, have\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/gfile.thedispatch.com\/p\/the-treason-of-epidemiologists\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">abruptly changed their tune<\/a>, even though they once said lockdown measures were so important that they justified widespread unemployment and business closures.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think given the uncertainty involved and the very fast pace of the infection, especially in certain areas, the original 30-day or so &#8212; and even maybe with some extensions &#8212;\u00a0measures were appropriate,&#8221; Barr told Baier.\u00a0&#8220;But I think that as time has gone by, the degree of impingement on fundamental liberties has never been anything like this in the United States nationally, forbidding people from engaging in their livelihood, telling them to stay home. It&#8217;s just sort of a form of house arrest in many places.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Barr added: &#8220;There have never been more pervasive or widespread limitations on American liberty than this since\u00a0slavery. I&#8217;m not saying this is a form of\u00a0slavery. I&#8217;m just saying that these are extremely broad limitations. And I think the time has come to restrike the balance and be more limited in what we did and more critical.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em>Fox News&#8217; Bret Baier and Andrew O&#8217;Reilly contributed to this report.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/barr-exclusive-fox-news-interview\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaking exclusively to Fox News&#8217; Bret Baier on Monday outside the Department of Justice,\u00a0Attorney General Bill Barr\u00a0confirmed that &#8220;focused investigations&#8221; are underway that &#8220;relate to Antifa,&#8221; the far-left group that President Trump has sought to designate\u00a0as a terrorist organization.&#8221;It&#8217;s a very loosely organized group, and they have an unusual system of communication and organization,&#8221; Barr&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":40097,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[610,3535],"class_list":{"0":"post-40096","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-confirms","9":"tag-interview"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Barr, in FNC interview, confirms &#039;focused investigations&#039; 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