Sunny Hostin says Amy Klobuchar as VP is a 'nonstarter' for black community
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"The View" co-host Sunny Hostin indicated on Wednesday that choosing Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., as running mate would not help the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden with African-Americans.
Her comments came during a broader discussion about the killing of an unarmed black man – which she plainly called "murder" – in Klobuchar's home state of Minnesota.
"We're seeing that black people in Minneapolis are arrested at nine times the rate of a white person for nonviolent offenses," she said. "That says something to me, and I think, you know, when we talk about politics, and we talk about Joe Biden's selection for a vice presidential pick, that is why the black community has said that Amy Klobuchar is a nonstarter for them, because in many respects from 1999 to 2007, she declined to prosecute over two dozen cases involving police killings of unarmed people."
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Biden has reportedly asked Klobuchar to undergo a vetting process for serving as his running mate. In February, Hostin confronted Klobuchar over the case of Myon Burrell, whom Klobuchar prosecuted in the 2002 shooting death of an 11-year-old girl. An Associated Press investigation into the case uncovered new evidence and myriad inconsistencies, raising questions about whether Burrell, who is serving a life sentence, was railroaded by police.
"I've reviewed the facts of that case and it is one of the most flawed investigations and prosecutions that I think I have ever seen," said Hostin, a former prosecutor.
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After criticizing the prosecution, she asked Klobuchar: "How do you defend something like that to someone like me who is the mother of a black boy, a black teenager? This case would be my worst nightmare."
Klobuchar, who joined the show remotely from New Hampshire, said she's already called for a review of all the evidence in that case. That apparently wasn't good enough for Hostin, who pressed further on the issue.
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Hostin and her co-hosts unanimously expressed outrage at George Floyd's death.
"I think people are sitting in their homes and seeing what is blatantly a murder of a man on camera, and George Floyd, I watched the entire video," co-host Meghan McCain said. "I know we didn't want to show the entire thing, but it's very graphic. It's very violent. The police officer has his knee on his neck."
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The Associated Press contributed to this report.