Judge Amy Coney Barrett said the video of George Floyd, who was killed by Minneapolis police this summer, was personal for her family.
“I have two Black children. That was very, very personal for my family,” she said.
“My 17-year-old daughter Vivian, who’s adopted from Haiti, all of this was erupting, it was difficult for her,” Barrett said. “We wept together in my room.”
Barrett said Floyd’s death was also difficult for her 10-year-old daughter Juliet
“I had to try to explain some of this to them,” Barrett said of her children.
On the larger topic of racism, Barrett said that while she is willing to discuss the reaction her family had to the incidents of police brutality towards Black people in America, “giving broader statements or making broader diagnoses about the problem of racism is beyond what I’m capable of doing as a judge,” she said.
But “racism persists in our country,” she added.
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