Say What? Biden Claims It Is Republicans Who Want To Defund Police

President Joe Biden On Tuesday, it was the unorthodox claim that Republicans are pushing for “The police should be defunded“Despite near universal GOP support for law-enforcement and the fact that he was a vocal advocate of cutting police budgets in 2020, he said so.

Biden spoke at Monterey Park’s recreation center on January 21st, the same place where an gunman murdered 11 and injured nine in a dance studio. The order will increase background checks to purchase guns. “red flag” Republicans opposed the orders to publish federal records about violations by firearms dealers.

“Congressional Republicans should pass my budget instead of calling for cuts to these services or defunding the police or abolishing the FBI, as we hear from our MAGA Republican friends,” Biden said.

It is true that some Republicans call for the removal of the scandal-ridden FBI. But calls to defund police departments are the preserve of Democrats since the George Floyd riots in 2020. Biden wasn’t among the Democrats who called for a reduction in police budgets. However, Vice President Kamala Harris gave praise to Eric Garcetti (then-L.A. Mayor) for his plan to trim up to $150M from his police budget.

“Right now, what we’re seeing in America is many cities spend over one-third of their entire city budget on policing but meanwhile we’ve been defunding public schools for years in America,” Harris stated this in June 2020.

The funding of police departments is a local matter, but GOP governors like Florida’s Ron DeSantis Texas Greg Abbott They have stood firmly behind the police. Meanwhile, “defund the police” Advocates have visited the White House and met with White House staff, as White House visitor logs reported last June.

Rashad Robinson was the president of Color of Change. Carmen Rojas, president and CEO of Marguerite Casey Foundation, Latosha brown, co-founder of Black Voters Matter. Tylik McMillan is the chairman. “National Director of Youth [and] College” Al Sharpton’s National Action Network Fox News reported.

“So many people are twisting themselves into word pretzels,” Rojas Tweet 2021 “They say we need justice in one breathe & not all police are bad in the next. We must be unwavering in our commitment to freedom. The best way to realize it is to defund the police and support abolition. Period.”

Rojas “visited the White House in December 2021 and appeared to meet with Nia Page,” Fox News noted that Rojas’ Marguerite Casey Foundation was the Special Assistant to Cedric Virginia, then-Biden advisor. Rojas’ Marguerite Casey Foundation had also Featured Robinson joined the board. Robinson also visited Washington in 2021, where he reportedly met with Richmond.

Color of Change: “dismantle” Fox News reports that the Minneapolis Police Department will be replaced in 2021. They also created a Petition titled, “TAKE ACTION: Defund the police, and invest in communities now!” According to the petition, “The Minneapolis City Council recently approved a potential ballot measure that would change the city charter and dismantle the Minneapolis Police. Now it’s up to us to hold them accountable, push for further systemic changes.”

Marguerite Casey Foundation tweeted in March 2022 “#DefundthePolice.”

According to Fox News’s visitor logs and White House visitor logs Brown had spoken to Vincent Evans, who worked in the office of Vice President Harris.  Brown spoke out about police reform. “It’s kind of like having weeds in the yard. You can cut the weeds down, you know, when you’re mowing the grass, but until you uproot or kill the weeds, it will still take over your yard,” reported Washington Examiner.

“In August 2020, Brown promoted a ‘Defund the Police 101 Teach-In’ event led by two other defund the police activists,” Fox News.

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