Former South Carolina police chief: Black voters are 'seeing through' Kamala Harris on law enforcement record

SPARTANBURG, South Carolina — Former Spartanburg Police Chief Tony Fisher would seem to be a natural supporter of 2020 Democrat Kamala Harris, a career prosecutor in starkly liberal and more mixed jurisdictions.

Fisher, 69, was the first black police chief in Spartanburg, a northwestern South Carolina city of just under 40,000 people, amid a conservative stretch of territory in a Republican-leaning state. Earlier in his career, Fisher was the first black police chief of Takoma Park, Maryland, a decidedly liberal enclave just outside of Washington, D.C.

Harris, a California senator since 2017, previously served for six years as state attorney general and district attorney for San Francisco, an embodiment of American liberalism.

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