The Democratic presidential candidate wants an extra $300 million in federal grants for cops.
«Defund the police» has become one of the most important mantras for the protesters demanding justice in the wake of George Floyd’s death. Protesters in Minneapolis, for instance, ostracized Mayor Jacob Frey after he admitted that he did not support the full abolition of the police. «Go home, Jacob, go home!» they shouted.
Minneapolis’s city council, unlike its mayor, seems to like the idea. Council members are expected to vote to dismantle the police department and «replace it with a transformative new model of public safety,» according to Council President Lisa Bender. It’s unclear what that would look like, but there are plenty of alternative models out there; municipalities should absolutely seize the moment as an opportunity to make policing less costly, deadly, and indifferent toward people’s rights.
