NY Democrat: DC police takeover points toward ‘Jim Crow 2.0’

Rep. Gregory Meeks (D-N.Y.) compared President Trump’s police takeover in Washington, D.C., to the post-Reconstruction era in the United States when racial segregation was codified into law and upheld by law enforcement. In an interview Sunday on MSNBC’s “PoliticsNation,” the Rev. Al Sharpton, a civil rights activist, noted three Republican-led states — Ohio, West Virginia…