Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer claimed during the second night of the Democratic National Convention that only the Democratic Party is capable of fighting systemic racism within law enforcement. To call this assertion hypocritical is an understatement.

It was the Democratic Party, led by Schumer in the Senate, that blocked all debate over a police reform bill introduced by Sen. Tim Scott and other Senate Republicans back in June. The bill would have at least kick-started an important conversation about what Congress can do to address very real problems plaguing our criminal justice and law enforcement systems. But Schumer deflected, arguing that the conversation wasn’t worth having since the bill Scott introduced didn’t go far enough.