mornings here on cnn. how big a setback, michael, is that minneapolis vote for, you know, the most progressive of progressive democrats who actually want to defund police? i think it s a huge defeat for advocates of so-called police reform. if you can t get it done where george floyd was killed, where are you going to be able to get it done? it s a terrible messaging issue. it s a terrible messaging issue in so far as defunding the police. anderson, that sounds like some sort of an altruistic goal that you have for somebody else s neighborhood, not yours. and yet, i think there is merit to the idea that is being advanced. we had a case in philadelphia one year ago right now. walter wallace, 27-year-old, young african-american. history of mental health issues, wielding a knife. police arrive. they don t have tasers. gunshots fired. he s dead. this whole movement is about equipping them better to make sure that there s somebody else along for that ride who can de-escalate the situation
commentator, michael smerconish, most host of smerconish. how big a setback, michael, is that minneapolis vote for, you know, the most progressive of progressive democrats who actually want to defund police? i think it s a huge defeat for advocates of so-called police reform. if you can t get it done where george floyd was killed, where are you going to be able to get it done? it s a terrible messaging issue. it s a terrible messaging issue in so far as defunding the police. anderson, that sound like some kind of an altruistic goal that you have for somebody else s neighborhood, not yours. and yet, i think there is merit to the idea that is being advanced. we had a case in philadelphia one year ago right now. walter wallace, 27-year-old, young african-american. history of mental-health issues. wielding a knife. police arrive. they don t have tasers. gunshots fired. he s dead. this whole movement is about