She's the violent threat to democracy they claim Trump to be.
“This whole movement is about rightly saying, we need to take a look at these budgets and figure out whether it reflects the right priorities,” Harris said on a New York-based radio program “Ebro in the Morning” on June 9, 2020, adding that US cities were “militarizing police” but “defunding public schools.”...
In an interview a day earlier, Harris also lauded Los
Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti for his decision to slash $150 million from
the police budget and move it into social services. ...
“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 It is outdated and is actually wrong and backward to think that more police officers will create more safety.”
In another interview on “The View” on June 8, 2020, Harris engaged in an exchange on defunding the police where she directly suggested the funding for police could be used in other social programs.
“In many cities in America, over one third of their city
budget goes to police. So, we have to have this conversation. What are
we doing? What about the money going to social services? What about the
money going to helping people with job training? What about helping with
the mental health issues that communities are being plagued with for
which we’re putting no resources?”
Also on June 8, 2020, Harris praised the mayor of Los
Angeles for removing money from police and investing it in social
services in an interview on “Good Morning America."
“I applaud Eric Garcetti for doing what he’s done,” she said. ...
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. ...
