Radical calls to "Defund the police" have alarmed most Americans with two brain cells working.
We don't really mean, like, "Defund the police." So relax, you right-wing racist conspiracy nuts.
The suckers who have spent the last few weeks arguing that "Defund the police" does not literally mean "Defund the police" should be feeling pretty annoyed right now with Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
On Tuesday, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio and the City Council reached a tentative deal to cut $1 billion from the New York Police Department, "Though nearly half will be through shifting school safety from the police to the Department of Education," according to Gotham Gazette senior reporter Samar Khurshid.
Enter the screeching harpy, AOC. "Defunding police means defunding police," she said in a statement.
"It does not mean budget tricks or funny math. It does not mean moving school police officers from the NYPD budget to the Department of Education's budget so that the exact same police remain in schools."
It continues, "It does not mean counting overtime cuts as cuts, even as NYPD ignores every attempt by City Council to curb overtime spending and overspends on overtime anyways. It does not mean hiring more police officers while cutting more than $800M from NYC schools. If these reports are accurate, then these proposed 'cuts' to NYPD's budget are a disingenuous illusion. This is not a victory. The fight to defund policing continues."
We don't really mean, like, "Defund the police." So relax, you right-wing racist conspiracy nuts.
The suckers who have spent the last few weeks arguing that "Defund the police" does not literally mean "Defund the police" should be feeling pretty annoyed right now with Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
On Tuesday, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio and the City Council reached a tentative deal to cut $1 billion from the New York Police Department, "Though nearly half will be through shifting school safety from the police to the Department of Education," according to Gotham Gazette senior reporter Samar Khurshid.
Enter the screeching harpy, AOC. "Defunding police means defunding police," she said in a statement.
"It does not mean budget tricks or funny math. It does not mean moving school police officers from the NYPD budget to the Department of Education's budget so that the exact same police remain in schools."
It continues, "It does not mean counting overtime cuts as cuts, even as NYPD ignores every attempt by City Council to curb overtime spending and overspends on overtime anyways. It does not mean hiring more police officers while cutting more than $800M from NYC schools. If these reports are accurate, then these proposed 'cuts' to NYPD's budget are a disingenuous illusion. This is not a victory. The fight to defund policing continues."
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