Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) on Sunday said “defund the police” is “not the position of the Democratic Party,” a direct response to Rep. Cori Bush (D-Mo.), who recently said she stands behind the slogan despite some of her colleagues disagreeing with the phrase.
“Well, with all the respect in the world for Cori Bush, that is not the position of the Democratic Party,” Pelosi told anchor George Stephanopoulos when asked on ABC’s “This Week” about Bush’s comments and how she thinks Democrats should be addressing rising crime.
“Community safety, to protect and defend in every way, is our oath of office. And I have sympathy — I — we’re all concerned about mistreatment of people,” she added, before pointing to the Justice in Policing Act, which would overhaul national policing standards on a number of levels.
The bill, which the House passed in March, is named after George Floyd, who died in May 2020 after former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin, who was later found guilty of murder charges, knelt on his neck for nearly nine minutes.
Pelosi told Stephanopoulos “make no mistake, community safety is our responsibility.”
.@SpeakerPelosi says “defund the police” is “not the position of the Democratic Party" as lawmakers remains split over how to address crime.
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Bush, a first-term congresswoman from Missouri, told a group of Black reporters last week that “ ‘defund the police’ is not the problem,” according to Axios.
“We dangled the carrot in front of people’s faces and said we can get it done and that Democrats deliver, when we haven’t totally delivered,” she added.
The Missouri lawmaker said she frequently tells her Democratic colleagues that “if you all had fixed this before I got here, I wouldn’t have to say these things.”
Asked if she feels pressure from colleagues to alter her rhetoric, Bush said, “oh, absolutely,” telling reporters that she has “had colleagues walk up to me” and say the phrase is not helpful for them back at home.
She emphasized, however, that she will not change her posture until significant reforms are enacted.
Bush has for some time utilized the “defund the police” slogan. In August she said “defunding the police has to happen.”
“We need to defund the police and put that money into social safety nets, because we’re trying to save lives,” she added.
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Original Article: https://thehill.com/homenews/sunday-talk-shows/594038-pelosi-defund-the-police-is-not-the-position-of-the-democratic
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Oh but it is the position of the jihad squad, who dictates to the Democratic party =
dam lier
Democrats have been on the defund the police when Biden took office , now they want to change. BECAUSE they are seeing that the American people are feed up with the democrats defund the Police . Democrats are losing votes Daily . I just do not trust the Democrats, remember Biden promised everything and gave us nothing. Democrats platform is to lie , just to get you to vote for them. Dont fall for their Lies .
Democrats are the party of defund the police and the only party. Just because you cram money for refunding the police in a bill full of outrageous waste and it’s voted down doesn’t mean republicans are for defunding police. There is no end to this lying sack of crap democrat party.
Time for the socialist democrats to start BACKPEDALING on all of their positions!!
We vote in a matter of months!!!
Oh, how the democRATS have changed their tune, just because they are talking out of the other side of their mouth does not make it so, they have preached too long and too hard for anyone to believe them, what they are trying to get people to believe them now, they are again trying to pull the wool over the eyes of people and stave off an election disaster in November, if they do it will be back to business same as usual, so people don’t be dumb, vote republican and pray we can save our Republic from socialist like aoc, sharia law advocates like omar and any other idiot that is preaching to take America down, this includes the biggest traitor of all, soros who should have had his citizenship revoked and deported back to his home country, in fact every foreigner that gains citizenship by fraud should get the same fate
what world has Pelosi lived in the past couple of years. Sorry but the democRATS ownthis one
looks like pelosi has had all the booze sucked out of her face….or more put into it …haven’t decided which yet but something has been done to her face but it sure doesn’t change the fact that she is a LIAR!!!!