Dear Som,
Biden did not call to defund police. He planned to spend 300 million to reshape police department,
AOC- Are you kidding me? Do you listen to first term congressmen from one sided districts, for policy decisions? I am not that liberal to care about every little politicians statements. I post to the coffee room. I do not write letters to Washington. And, the poster said smart people.
The police -especially NYPD – have their own commissioners to follow. Who is wisely choosing to stand down, and let the politicians take the heat. There is not much Police do, or can do for recurrent violent crime.
If the police are afraid of the media, then they are just a bunch of unionizing wimps. It is never easy to explain domestic unrest, but here it seems easy. People are bored without much entertainment. Maybe the media could have written about civic duty in the face of the pandemic, instead of civil rights, But I do not see to many posters promoting civic duty. Whatever sells newspapers……