De roep om de politie sterk in te krimpen kwam van de democraten, met grote steun van de media die alles wat de politie deed in een negatief daglicht stelden en constant beweerden dat de politie racistisch was. In die tijd (2020) had je de gigantische gewelddadigheden van Antifa, BLM en ander tuig die de binnensteden van veel grote democratisch geleide steden in beslag namen en tot hun terrein bestempelden, ze brachten grote vernielingen aan, stichtten branden, mepten onschuldige bewoners in elkaar en er werden zelfs een behoorlijk aantal burgers vermoord, terwijl de politie van de democratische leiding de opdracht kreeg afzijdig te blijven en alleen toe te kijken hoe er geweld werd gepleegd en voor miljarden dollars aan schade werd aangericht. De democraten en de media noemden het allemaal een vreedzaam samenkomen en betitelden het de: ‘summer of love’, alsof het te vergelijken viel met hoe de hippies in de jaren ’60 daadwerkelijk vreedzaam leefden.
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Vice President Kamala Harris voiced support for “defund the police” in a radio interview in June 2020 amidst nationwide protests for police reform, just months before denouncing the movement after she had joined the Biden presidential campaign.
Harris said in the June radio interview the movement “rightly” called out the amount of money spent on police departments instead of community services such as education, housing, and healthcare, emphasizing that more police did not equate to more public safety.
“This whole movement is about rightly saying, we need to take a look at these budgets and figure out whether it reflects the right priorities,” Harris said on a New York-based radio program “Ebro in the Morning” on June 9, 2020, adding that US cities were “militarizing police” but “defunding public schools.”
Kamala Harris said "defund the police" movement "rightly" questioned size of police budgets
Harris said in the June radio interview the movement “rightly” called out the amount of money spent on police departments instead of community services such as education, housing, and healthcare, emphasizing that more police did not equate to more public safety.
Harris made her comments just weeks after the murder of George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer galvanized the “defund” movement among progressive activists. At the time, Harris was six months removed from ending her own presidential campaign and was still two months away from being tapped as Joe Biden’s vice presidential nominee.
In an interview a day earlier, Harris also lauded Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti for his decision to slash $150 million from the police budget and move it into social services.
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