Here is seven minutes of Dems at all levels calling to defund the police

Now that it is election season, Democrats in cities, states, the federal government, and the media now claim they do not support “defund the police” initiatives.

The problem with that is the record.

If you have an ulcer and would rather not exacerbate it by watching the above RNC Research video montage, let’s just visit a few highlights, culled from 2020 Democrats whose leadership at the time entailed emoting along with the spirit of the age.

“Suck it up… Defunding the police has to happen. We need to defund the police,” said apparent anarchist Rep Cori Bush (D-MO) with conviction.

Speaking with Vice President Kamala Harris, George Stephanopoulos quoted Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti who said the city would “take some of the money from policing, about $150 million.”

Harris responded, “I applaud Eric Garcetti for doing what he’s done.”

Everyone’s favorite hijab wearer, Ilhan Omar (D-MN), screeched, “Not only do we need to disinvest [in] police, but we need to completely dismantle the Minneapolis Police Department.”

The former mayor of New York City, Bill De Blasio, also chimed in, “We will be moving funding from the NYPD to youth initiatives and social services” (emphasis his).

“I do believe that we need to reallocate resources away,” said Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who was later displeased with the $1 billion cut to the NYPD when it was proposed in New York, saying it wasn’t enough. (It never is with her.) She tweeted in Summer 2020, “Defunding the police means defunding the police. If these reports are accurate, then these proposed ‘cuts’ to the NYPD budget are a disingenuous illusion. This is not a victory.”

There were more Democrat governors – Gretchen Whitmer (MI) and Andrew Cuomo (NY). There were more Democrat mayors – Ted Wheeler (Portland) and London Breed (San Francisco). More Democrats in the House of Representatives – Nancy Pelosi, Ayanna Pressley, Mondair Jones, Rashida Tlaib, Bennie Thompson, and Jamaal Bowman. Biden Administration officials also joined in – Marcia Fudge, Susan Rice, and Julian Castro. All were in full-throated support of defunding the police.

It was reported on Friday, that Rep Nancy Mace (R-SC) called out Democrats who want to re-write history regarding their earlier statements and actions that wounded police departments.
Democrats sound like Republicans from 2020, but you cannot rewrite history or rewrite the narrative. If you were aligned with Black Lives Matter you were aligned with organizations that want to defend the police including my opponent in the general election [Katie Arrington], these are extreme views that the majority of Americans, Republican or Democrat, just are not part of. Over the last two or three years murder is up 40% nationally and crime is up in every city, small and big. Crime is up enormously over the last two years.

A few examples of this reversal include New York, where the city cut police support in 2020 by about $1 billion. In 2021 they added $200 million back.

Austin, Texas, which is fiercely liberal, made a major change in approach in 2021. In 2020, the city reallocated $150 million from the police to other budgets. The next year, Austin reversed course and passed its largest-ever police budget, having received heavy pressure from Republican officials over rising crime.

In Washington, where the city council cut $15 million in 2020, Mayor Bowser proposed further cuts of $36 million for the 2022 budget. But in July 0f 2021, July shootings caused her to abandon the idea. Instead, she asked the council for $11 million to hire 170 new police officers. The council rejected it, eventually agreeing to fund 40 officers.

In Minneapolis, the murder rate in 2021 was one shy of the all-time record there. Yet police reforms continue to have large numbers of supporters in the city where George Floyd died. To his credit, Mayor Jacob Frey opposed police defunding, saying it is “not a realistic solution given the circumstances our city is facing – all cities are facing.”

Meanwhile, always on the offensive, Democrats want to call Republicans hypocrites, with their calls to defund or dismantle the FBI.

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