Sen. Tim Scott says Democrats 'walked away' from police reform talks

Tim O'Donnell
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A few days after Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) said that Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.) rejected his final offer on a bipartisan police reform bill, Scott relayed his side of the story, painting the situation a little differently.

From Scott's perspective it was the Democrats who "walked away" from the talks. "Let's just be clear that we have stayed at the table," Scott told CBS News' Margaret Brennan on Sunday's edition of Face the Nation, referring to Republicans.

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Tim O'Donnell
Tim O'Donnell

Tim is a staff writer at The Week and has contributed to Bedford and Bowery and The New York Transatlantic. He is a graduate of Occidental College and NYU's journalism school. Tim enjoys writing about baseball, Europe, and extinct megafauna. He lives in New York City.

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