Trollminator wrote:
Ghost of Disco Gary wrote:
Most dem mayors in our biggest cities have defunded or supported defunding the police and crime has surged. Your party, your screwup. You own it.
Proof? Why do I even ask?
These are dem mayors, dem city council menbers, Dems in the US Congress, who support defunding the police.
Once again, this is YOUR party doing this.
Vice President Kamala Harris said “I applaud Eric Garcetti” for defunding the Los Angeles police, and said “we have to reimagine public safety” while discussing lowering the police presence in communities.
Biden’s Associate Attorney General Vanita Gupta said officials must heed calls to “decrease police budgets and the scope, role, and responsibility of police in our lives.”
As Boston Mayor, Biden’s Secretary of Labor Marty Walsh proposed a budget to divert funding from law enforcement.
Biden’s Assistant Attorney General Kristen Clarke wrote an op-ed for Newsweek in 2020 supporting efforts to “defund the police.”
Rep. Val Demings (D-FL) called the Minneapolis City Council “very thoughtful” for voting to dismantle the police.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and fellow House Democrats refused to criticize the Minneapolis City Council for defunding the police.
Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) called for dismantling the Minneapolis Police Department.
Rep. Cori Bush (D-MO) called for defunding police as a congresswoman-elect.
A Democratic National Convention panelist advocated for defunding the police.
A Minneapolis City Council member defended defunding the police, but said she didn’t “have all the answers” on who would respond to violent crime.
House Majority Whip James Clyburn (D-SC) compared federal law enforcement to the Nazi Gestapo. He later ignored looting and arson in D.C., claiming the only violence he saw in D.C. was from police.
Democrat Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison said he doesn’t want police officers to respond to rape.
Even though violent crime has risen significantly in the past year, Democrats are still calling for the defunding of police departments around the country:
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) stood by her calls to “reallocate resources away” from police while saying the crime surge is just “hysteria.”
Rep. Ayanna Pressley (D-MA) said she still supports defunding the police.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/06/29/heres-list-many-times-democrats-not-republicans-supported-defunding-police/