Black People Never Wanted to Defund the Police

Black People Never Wanted to Defund the Police
“What’s at Issue is the White Progressives’ Belief That They’re Helping Us” - TED BALAKER
“We committed to dismantling policing as we know it.”
That’s what then-Minneapolis City Council President Lisa Bender declared in early June of 2020...

• During an interview with CNN’s Poppy Harlow, the host pressed Bender. “To be clear, you’re not talking about reform … This is more than reform, this is dismantling.” Bender stood her ground: “I know that statement was bold and I stand by that bold statement.”

Harlow continued, “What if, in the middle of the night, my home is broken into. Who do I call?”
Bender responded with that familiar retort that substitutes an ad hominem attack for real engagement: According to Bender, Harlow’s question “comes from a place of privilege.”...