Cue the backpedaling and double-talk by Democrats ahead of the November elections. Their angry cries to defund the police became reimagine policing and reallocating resources. This was a change in language to hide the real motives of Democrats.
In Georgia we’ve seen Democratic candidates Warnock and Ossoff try to hide the support of many Democrats for slashing police budgets and radically transforming law enforcement. But we know the truth.
For example, Warnock has endorsed ending cash bail and allowing many criminals back on the streets. He said in a 2015 sermon: Police power showing up in a kind of gangster and thug mentality you know you can wear all kinds of colors and be a thug, you can sometimes wear the colors of the state and behave like a thug.
Conservative media are promoting false claims from several Georgia sheriffs that Democratic U.S. Senate candidates Jon Ossoff and the Rev. Raphael Warnock want to “defund the police.” Not only is right-wing media often concealing the fact that these are Republican sheriffs who were livestreamed by the Georgia Republican Party, but the claims being pushed are not true.
Despite misleading claims in conservative media coming from Republican operatives, Ossoff and Warnock don’t support “defunding the police.” The Atlanta Journal-Constitution has noted Ossoff said in June that “the answer is not to defund police,” but to support reforms including demilitarization. Warnock said on June 25, ‘“I do not believe that we should defund the police. I do believe that we should responsibly fund law enforcement,” explaining that “we certainly need to demilitarize the police so that we can rebuild trust between the police and the community.” In October, he tweeted, “Let me