Republican sheriff and congressional candidate: Most shot by cops ‘are on the way to jail’ anyway
Henrico County Sheriff Mike Wade is running for an open seat in Virginia’s Fourth Congressional District.
As reported by Blue Virginia’s Lowell Feld, the comments came during Thursday’s debate against Democratic nominee and State Sen. Donald McEachin.
Asked about how to improve relationships between law enforcement and African Americans, Wade lamented that “we always talk about the police officer as being the one that’s wrong in these situations and the media does a poor job.”
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He then opined that “the greater problem in this area is the problem we have in this country of mental health and substance abuse.“
“The majority of those people in these situations that are shot are on the way to jail,” he Wade continued, “85 percent of the people that are in jail, according to the paper, have substance abuse problems and 30 percent of them have mental illness problems.”
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