Jeb! Bush is certain that “the process worked” when a grand jury declined to indict the police officer who killed 12-year-old Tamir Rice—after all, "I don't believe that every grand jury is racist." And to show you just how certain he is that everything’s humming along as it should, Bush deftly made the point that it doesn’t matter in which city the legal system let a police officer get away with brutally killing an unarmed child (or ineptly made the point that he doesn’t think black lives matter):
"I think that Chicago's got a lot of work to do to rebuild trust. The level of violence is abhorrent," he said, when asked about the grand jury decision out of Cleveland earlier this week.
The reporter corrected Bush, saying, the shooting of Rice "happened in Cleveland."
"I'm sorry, my bad," Bush quickly said. "In every community where you have these cases, elected officials and the police chief need to engage with the community to rebuild trust."
Um, Jeb … maybe if this is happening so regularly that you can’t keep track of which city any given case is in, it’s a sign that this is happening too much? It’s almost like the “process” that is “working” so well is itself part of the problem.
And dontcha love the sleight of hand that transforms the question from whether there was a problem with a specific grand jury to believing that every grand jury is racist? Way to make it about the individuals on grand juries rather than the system that selectively feeds them information!