Democratic strategists and legacy media pundits may be suffering from buyer’s remorse after anointing Vice President Kamala Harris the presumptive Democratic nominee, apparently failing to consider her support for the “defund the police” movement.
As previously reported by The Dallas Express, Democratic officials rallied around Harris in the days following President Joe Biden’s not-so-surprising announcement that he would be ending his re-election bid.
They must have forgotten her open endorsement of denying police taxpayer dollars to placate the Black Lives Matter movement.
Here’s some of what The Center Square reported on the ideological skeletons in Harris’ closet:
Vice President Kamala Harris’ kickstart to her presidential campaign last week immediately faced a flurry of references to her most controversial stances and statements, not the least of which was her support of the “defund the police” movement in 2020.
“Defund the police” took off as a movement in the aftermath of the death of George Floyd and the ensuing Black Lives Matter riots in cities around the country.
In June 2020, Harris praised the movement, repeatedly saying we need to “reimagine” how we get safety in our cities and rework budgets instead of spending so much on police.
“Defund the police, the issue behind it is that we need to reimagine how we are creating safety,” Harris told the radio show “Ebro in the Morning” in a clip now resurfaced by CNN. “When you have cities with one third of their entire city budget focused on policing, we know that is not the smart way or the best way or the right way to achieve safety.
“This whole movement is about rightly saying, we need to take a look at these budgets and figure out if it reflects the right priorities,” she continued. “For too long the status quo thinking has been, you get more safety by putting more cops on the street. Well, that’s wrong.”
When Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti diverted $150 million from the police budget, Harris praised the decision.