Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-MS) responded to Rep. Peter King’s (R-NY) comments earlier that the U.S. should profile Muslims to bolster national security, saying that “I live in a part of the country where white supremacists happen to be terrorists. If we’re going to look at bad people, let’s look at all bad people and not target a specific group of people.”King, who is a member of the House Homeland Security Committee, appeared on MSNBC earlier today and defended racial profiling, saying that “the fact of the matter right now is that 100% of the Islamic terrorists who are coming against us are Muslims.”
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=132707