Posted on 06/09/2020 12:22:54 PM PDT by NoLibZone
Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden and Democratic leaders on Capitol Hill are quickly shutting down calls to defund police departments as the party grapples with how to respond to demands for reforms in the wake of George Floyd's death.
The idea is splintering black activists and some prominent progressive lawmakers from Biden and top congressional Democrats while providing fodder for national Republicans, who are quickly mobilizing to use it as the latest example of Democrats moving to the left in the lead up to November.
A spokesman for Biden's campaign said Monday that the former vice president "hears and shares the deep grief and frustration" of those calling for reform, but that he "does not believe that police should be defunded.” ADVERTISEMENT
Later, Biden made his position clear in an interview with CBS.
"No, I don't support defunding the police. I support conditioning federal aid to police based on whether or not they meet certain basic standards of decency and honorableness," he said.
Democratic leaders on Capitol Hill were adopting a similar position.
“I can’t imagine that happening in a federal way,” Rep. Karen Bass (D-Calif.), the chairwoman of the Congressional Black Caucus, said when asked about efforts to defund the police.
Asked if the slogan of defunding the police was “politically problematic,” Bass said that she supported the “intent” behind it, including more investment in communities, but “I think it can be used as a distraction and that’s my concern.”
Good.
Too late.
You own it.
Of course the ‘Rat bigwigs want cops — to shut down church services.
They’d have better luck trying to put toothpaste back in the tube. BLMM, Ltd. can see also those polls showing that Biden will win easily and want theirs now.
Get all the screenshots and video clips you can it will make for one hell of a commercial in the summer and fall
Not your call Joey, it’s not your party anymore, it’s AOC’s.
aka trying to put the crazy back into the tube. Good luck, clowns!
That is, except "Saint" George's funeral service.
Well, yeah, it would be kind of hard to continue enforcing the provisions in Biden’s 1994 Crime Bill, the one that led to the significant increase of incarceration of blacks, without a police force.
“honorableness”
Honorableness?
Really?
As always the leftist RATs are trying to “moderate” themselves again. This time they won’t be able to mollify their lefty loons. I think they’ve had enough of the RAT doublespeak on issues!
Exactly - if people are owning stuff they said 10 years ago ....they can own what they are saying now.
They’ll try to reach the same result by crippling the police with rules that deter arrests and expose them to lawsuits.
Round and round
What goes around comes around
If non-existent KKK endorsements can be assigned to the GOP, why could actual demonkraps espousing the elimination of law enforcement be assigned to all demonkraps?
Why are demos celebrating a druggy and criminal so much.
polling on this is scaring the crap out of the rats So they are scrambling to reel it back.
We all know how Joe feels about street predators.
If every LEO and their immediate families in America vote for President Donald J. Trump, if for no other reason but to protect their jobs, the Democrats will have reaped exactly what they have sowed. Karma can be such a sweet thing.
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