Defunding police: An idea most Democrats don’t want to talk about
Al Jazeera
It became a political flashpoint last year; now, Democratic leaders refuse to entertain the notion.
When Daunte Wright became the latest Black person to die at the hands of the police on Sunday, the reaction was swift. Democrats and progressives, as they had after George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Philando Castile, Freddie Gray and the dozens of others who were killed by US police in recent years, expressed their outrage and again called for police reforms. Some, such as Representative Rashida Tlaib, re-upped their call for dismantling US police forces, arguing that they “can’t be reformed”.More Related News