Flashback: Kamala Harris Refers to Low-Level Criminals as ‘Bleep Bleeps’

HARRIS: "And again, I’m going to bring us back to California. So, you all may know in August of 2009, a federal three-judge court issued an order, and it said California had to reduce its prison population from 150,000 plus inmates to 109, reduce it to 137.5 percent of capacity. And why did they order that? Well, because there was a severe overcrowding situation in the state of California in our prison system, which lead to an infringement and later a court determined a violation of constitutional rights under the Eighth Amendment. So the court ordered this in August of 2009, and then the Supreme Court upheld the decision, the United States Supreme Court, in a case called Brown V. Plata, which essentially said that overcrowded prisons violate the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution of the United States. So this, as you can imagine, presented a crisis in California. And the way the discussion often played out was, 'Oh, bleep! What are we going to do? We got all these bleep bleeps that we've got to — what are we going to do? We've got to release them. How are we going to deal with the overcrowded situation?"