Defunding the cops protest where NEVER about Blacks…
Even with the weekly stories in the media about bad encounter ‘s between cops and people…and the shooting numbers in the street in NYC double from last year…
Blacks have NOTHING BUT cops to reach out to in their neiborhoods…
Sharpton joins Joe Biden and other Democrats in pushing for some reforms in policing around the country…
Efforts to actually cut police budgets has NOT occurred across the country…
The wave has been to ban choke holes and require more training and moves to community policing efforts….
Donald Trump maybe trying to throw ‘law and order’ around…
But Democrat’s have been about THAT from top to bottom all along….
Actually?
How the heck could Donald Trump keep mentioning those two things that he’s allergic to?
Sharpton’s comments on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” come as the NYPD reported a 166 percent increase in shootings in August compared to the same month last year.
Overall in 2020, New York has seen an 87 percent increase in shooting incidents across the city, with more than 1,000 reported compared to 541 at the same time in 2019.
“We’ve always heard about the tale of two cities. On the side of the city that I come from, which is Blacker and poorer, we’ve seen more in terms of gun usage. I got a lot of attention when I did the eulogy for George Floyd’s funeral, but I also, a month later, preached [at] a 1-year-old kid’s funeral in Brooklyn who was killed by a stray bullet,” Sharpton said.
“Six people were shot over Labor Day weekend at a festival in Brooklyn, so I would say statistically we’re not much higher than where we were, but on the ground it is certainly feeling more violent, feeling more unsafe in unsafe communities,” he continued.
“We need to reimagine how we do policing,” Sharpton later added. “But to take all policing off is something a latte liberal may go for as they sit around the Hamptons discussing this as an academic problem. But people living on the ground need proper policing.”…
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Rev Al isn’t stupid….
Dave Wasserman
@Redistrict
A few Dems are doing quite well in competitive districts by forcefully pushing back on “defunding the police” and touting support from law enforcement – an ad tactic we haven’t really seen from the Biden camp yet.