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Barack Obama Clarifies Defund Police Statement: That Actually Was Not The Point I Was Making
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Barack Obama says defund the police doesn t just concern white folks but also people like Michelle s mom who ask: Is someone going to show up if I get robbed?
Former President Barack Obama doubled down on his defund the police criticism after he faced backlash for calling it a snappy slogan earlier this month
Speaking to The Daily Show on Tuesday he said: The concern is there may be potential allies out there that you d lose
Obama said more people would support defund the police if its plan to reallocate police funds for social services was better explained If we say defund the police, not just white folks, but Michelle’s mom might say, if I’m getting robbed who am I going to call? he said
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During an appearance on The Daily Show, the former president also talked about the frustrations that young people feel with structural problems in the U.S.: I welcome them feeling frustrated and impatient because that s how I got started.
Barack Obama responded to criticism of his remark that political candidates risk losing support when they turn to snappy slogans like defund the police during an appearance on
The Daily Show with host Trevor Noah on Tuesday night.
The former president qualified that he made the comment, uttered during an appearance on the Snapchat show
Good Luck America in early December, amid a book tour where he repeatedly praised 2020 s social activism: Nothing made me more optimistic in the past year than the activism in the wake of George Floyd s murder, he told Noah on Tuesday, saying that activists had shifted the conversation in ways that I would not even imagine a couple of years ago. He added that, unlike some Democrats, he didn
Georgia sheriffs slam Democrats for supporting defund the police ahead of Biden s arrival
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After a year in which race and policing has taken center stage alongside the COVID-19 pandemic, the demands for accountability and a reimagining of what public safety can look like have also made their way into the mainstream discourse. Progressive Democrats have called to âdefund the policeââa slogan that has rankled some center-leaning Democrats, who argue that itâs too divisive a phrase to highlight the killing of unarmed Black people. In a leaked audio recording shared by The Intercept, President-elect
Joe Biden is heard cautioning civil rights leaders against championing Defund the Police, as it could hurt their chances of victory in the upcoming Georgia Senate runoffs. At one point during the two-hour virtual meeting, Biden said, âThatâs how they beat the living hell out of us across the country, saying that weâre talking about defunding the police.âÂ
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