CNN revealed that Vice President Kamala Harris, during an interview in June 2020, expressed support for the “Defund the Police” movement. This endorsement has resurfaced and is generating renewed scrutiny.
Her stance has been controversial and criticized by political opponents and members of her party.
After June 2020, Harris rarely if at all mentioned the “defund the police” movement. The Biden campaign later tried to clarify after adding her to the ticket that she supported funding the police.But in June 2020, Harris argued the “defund” movement was correct to examine police budgets, and also talked about police departments needing to be demilitarized.“We need to have this conversation and critically examine and understand this is not working,” Harris said on “Ebro in the Morning.” “It’s not working. So, this is an important conversation and not just a conversation – cause to your earlier point, can’t just be about talk. It has to be about forcing change.”“And this is why, you know, I was out there with folks and we’ll, any movement, any progress we have gained has been because people took to the streets,“ Harris added.A day before her “Ebro in the Morning“ radio interview, Harris appeared on MSNBC where she explicitly called to “demilitarize police departments“ and said it was “backward“ to think more police officers created more safety.“Part of what we have to do here is also look at the militarization of police departments and, and the kind of money that is going to that. And we need to demilitarize police departments,“ Harris said. “At its core, one of the issues that I think we should all agree on is that it is old thinking. It is outdated and is actually wrong and backward to think that more police officers will create more safety.”
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