As Sen. Tim Scott prepares to give the GOP response to President Joe Biden’s address, the Senate’s only black Republican finds himself integral to a most intense and important debate.

At the furthest ideological ends of the police reform “discussion,” the Left wants to defund and destroy law enforcement. Similarly, many Republicans seem to want stories about police killings to just go away, including far-right “nationalist” conservatives who actively work against the idea that criminal justice or police reform is even needed.

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