A staffer for Joe Biden’s presidential campaign quickly deleted anti-law enforcement commentary on social media after Fox News inquired about the posts.
Sara Pearl, who describes herself as a supervising producer for the Biden campaign, repeatedly derided law enforcement in recent weeks amid calls for police departments to be defunded.
In one post from June, Pearl urged others not to call police officers “pigs,” a label commonly used to deride law enforcement, because “pigs are highly intelligent and empathetic animals who would never racially profile you.” She also retweeted a comment to that post that labeled cops as “monsters,” who “don’t deserve to be called pigs.”
Pearl, who deleted the tweets after Fox News inquired about them, also promoted the idea that police departments should be defunded, which is a sentiment not shared by Biden.
The Trump campaign took a shot at Biden for Pearl’s commentary.
“Joe Biden can’t hide from the fact the radical left-wing party he leads has such visceral hatred of the police, the men and women who bravely put their lives on the line every day to protect our communities. At a time when police officers are under increasingly violent attack, Joe Biden has allowed a sickening anti-police culture to pervade his campaign. He sits silently and says nothing as police are viciously assaulted by left-wing mobs,” Bob Paduchik, the Trump campaign’s senior adviser for law enforcement and labor unions, said in a statement.
The former vice president explicitly said he doesn’t support defunding the police in an interview with CBS last month, instead stressing that he backs the idea of tying federal funding to make certain “they meet certain basic standards of decency, honorableness, and, in fact, are able to demonstrate they can protect the community, everybody in the community.”
