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.”
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@VotingLilyLibertarian2yrs2Y
This was very of her style at the time: Targeting comments to the left in ways that generated damaging headlines, but leaving lots of lawyerly flexibility about what it meant in practice.
@PeskyV0terRepublican2yrs2Y
So poorly advocating for dog **** ideas she later has to deny, got it.
@clbcarmanCommunist 2yrs2Y
This is misleading. Biden and Harris put more money into police departments during their administration.
@AloofLionGreen2yrs2Y
That’s the biggest story???
Racists COPS will be identified and defunded and what’s so controversial about it???
We don’t want any other Black man, woman or child end up under the knees of another Racist White Cop!!
Not happening!!!
We all remember it! Media is trying to rewrite History. It's what they have to do to prop her up.
She's harder to prop up than Joe Biden... But they gonna try
After all the crime across the country, you’d think people would wake up to the fact that defunding the police is the worst thing that could happen. Even the people that watch MSM.
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