Eric Holder claims Trump is trying to ‘re-segregate’ America in MLK speech meltdown
Former Obama-era Attorney General Eric Holder slammed the Trump administration as working to allegedly "re-segregate" the United States in a Martin Luther King Jr. Day speech that also took aim...
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Former Obama-era Attorney General Eric Holder slammed the Trump administration as working to allegedly "re-segregate" the United States in a Martin Luther King Jr. Day speech that also took aim at Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) presence on U.S. streets. "We are experiencing unprecedented mid-decade gerrymandering attempts to disproportionately disenfranchise Black and brown voters as the president desperately clings to power like an insecure dictator," Holder said Monday. "There is a concerted effort to re-segregate America." The longtime ally of former President Barack Obama delivered remarks in Washington, D.C., Monday at the Annual MLK Day Legislative Breakfast. Civil rights activist the Rev. Al Sharpton joined him on the stage as he unleashed on the Trump administration. "We are witnessing the weaponization of the Department of Justice by the president and his lackeys to silence his critics and to intimidate voters," he continued. "We are observing gestapo tactics by federal immigration law enforcement in Minnesota as well as around the country." DEM SENATOR WARNER ADMITS BIDEN 'SCREWED UP' THE BORDER, BUT CLAIMS ICE NOW TARGETING NON-CRIMINALS "You all remember the name Renee Good. And you say her name, you say her name," Holder continued. Democrats across the country have spoken out against the Trump administration's deportation efforts of illegal immigrants for the past year, accusing federal law enforcement of terrorizing communities with their presence and arrests. Rhetoric against ICE and other federal officers heightened in January when an ICE agent fatally shot Renee Good in Minneapolis. Federal officials said Good attempted to use her vehicle as a weapon against the ICE agent, defending the officer's actions of opening fire on the woman. Democrats and critics of the immigration policies have described Good's death as a "murder" at the hands of the government, heightening protests in Minneapolis and elsewhere. "As dark as things may seem now,…