Kamala Harris on Jussie Smollett: ‘I Don’t Actually Know What Happened’

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HARRIS: "Well, I think the facts are still kind of rolling themselves out, so I don't actually know what happened. But I will say that I'm very proud that finally, the United States Congress and the United States Senate, after 200 years passed legislation that acknowledges that lynching is a crime and should be punishable as such. As a career prosecutor, I've personally prosecuted a variety of violent crimes, including homicides. Lynching is part of a real dark stain on America's history. It involved people being forcibly taken from their homes, it involved people being hung, dragged, men being castrated while crowds would applaud. Extreme acts of violence that never went with any kind of arrest, most of them, with any kind of arrest or prosecution or sentencing or punishment. And I'm very proud that the unanimous United States Senate, again, for all of our diversity, it was a bipartisan, unanimous agreement that finally our country needs to recognize part of its history that we don't like to remember, but must, and that we've done something about it."