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WASHINGTON Painted in bright yellow letters outside the White House are the words "DEFUND THE POLICE: A rallying cry for a movement to combat police brutality and racism that has exploded across the nation and caused nervousness among Democrats.
Protesters around the country demanding justice for George Floyd's death waved Defund the police! signs at rallies in major cities on a weekend when Joe Biden officially became the presumptive Democratic nominee to face President Donald Trump this fall.
As Trump seizes the slogan as an opportunity to paint his opposition as radicals who envision a world of lawlessness and anarchy, Biden and most Democrats are resisting the left's calls and floating more modest measures to curtail bad police behavior.
"Vice President Biden does not believe that police should be defunded," campaign spokesman Andrew Bates said in a statement Monday, instead floating a boost in funding for police body cameras, community policing programs and diversification of law enforcement. "He hears and shares the deep grief and frustration of those calling out for change, and is driven to ensure that justice is done."
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empedocles
(15,751 posts)elleng
(131,107 posts)I Am Not a Member of Any Organized Party -- I Am a Democrat.
demosincebirth
(12,543 posts)Iliyah
(25,111 posts)Not gonna work.
msongs
(67,441 posts)maxrandb
(15,351 posts)This is all a fucking attempt to sow discord among Democrats and help Donnie Shit for Brains.
The fuckstick called Colon Powell a "loser" on Twitter
Where's the "Trump and Republican activists clash over his fitness for office" headline media?
We not only have to beat Donnie Shit for Brains, the Retrumplicans, the 1%, the Koch brothers, voter suppression, Putin... but we also have to beat the media as well.
To win a victory that hard will mean that a lot of those fuckers mentioned above are going to get fucking payback when we do win.
There's a reckoning coming, and bullshit headlines like this will be included in that reckoning.