Van Jones Slams Charlie Kirk Pointing Charlotte Train Murder to Racism: ‘It’s Just Pure Race Mongering’

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JONES: "You know, let me just say a couple things. One is, I mean, what happened to that young woman was horrible, and it's everybody's nightmare, if you're in any public space, a subway, whatever, that something bad is going to happen to you or somebody you care about. So, it does strike a chord. We don't know why that man did what he did. And for Charlie Kirk to say, 'We know he did it because she's white,' when there's no evidence of that, is just pure race-mongering, hate-mongering. It's wrong. Then he says that if something like that had happened the other way, there would be sweeping changes imposed on society. Where is the George Floyd Policing Act? It didn't pass even when you had a white police officer murder a black man on live television that the whole world saw, there were no sweeping changes. In fact, not one law was passed at the federal level. So, I think that's an important thing to point out. The other thing is, you mentioned the thing about cashless bail. I think this is a big challenge that we have. Would you have felt better if there had been cash bail and the mom had come and put down a thousand dollars to let him out? It's not about cashless bail or no cashless bail. It's about the fact that we don't know how to deal with people who were hurting in the way this man was hurting. Hurt people hurt people. What happened was horrible, but it becomes an opportunity for people to jump on bandwagons. And then for someone like Charlie Kirk, he should be ashamed of himself. No one mentioned the word race, white, black, or anything except him. What people mentioned is the horror of what happened to this young woman."