{"id":62701,"date":"2020-12-11T16:23:31","date_gmt":"2020-12-11T22:23:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=62701"},"modified":"2020-12-11T16:24:06","modified_gmt":"2020-12-11T22:24:06","slug":"62701","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=62701","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pjmedia.com\/news-and-politics\/matt-margolis\/2020\/12\/11\/biden-urges-dems-to-conceal-their-defund-the-police-agenda-until-after-georgia-runoffs-n1205348\">Biden Urges Dems To Conceal Their Defund the Police Agenda Until After Georgia Runoffs<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In a recording\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2020\/12\/10\/biden-audio-meeting-civil-rights-leaders\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">leaked<\/a>\u00a0to The Intercept, former Vice President Biden appeared to blame the \u201cdefund the police\u201d movement for the Democrats\u2019 shellacking down-ballot in the 2020 elections, and urged liberal civil rights leaders not to put public pressure on his incoming administration regarding police reform until after the Georgia Senate runoff elections in January.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ynQ8fHBTtxU\" width=\"600\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI also don\u2019t think we should get too far ahead ourselves on dealing with police reform in that, because they\u2019ve already labeled us as being \u2018defund the police\u2019 anything we put forward in terms of the organizational structure to change policing \u2014 which I promise you, will occur. Promise you.\u201d Biden can be heard telling left-wing civil rights leaders in the recording. \u201cJust think to yourself and give me advice whether we should do that before January 5, because that\u2019s how they beat the living hell out of us across the country\u2026 I just raise it with you to think about. How much do we push between now and January 5, we need those two seats, about police reform? But I guarantee you there will be a full-blown commission. I guarantee you it\u2019s a major, major, major element\u2026we can go very far.\u201d<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Biden\u2019s defenders have claimed that partially defunding the police isn\u2019t the same as \u201cdefund the police,\u201d but many have actually argued that \u201cdefunding the police\u201d doesn\u2019t mean fully defunding or abolishing police. In fact the liberal Brookings Institute\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.brookings.edu\/blog\/fixgov\/2020\/06\/19\/what-does-defund-the-police-mean-and-does-it-have-merit\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">says that<\/a>\u00a0\u201c\u2018Defund the police\u2019 means reallocating or redirecting funding away from the police department to other government agencies funded by the local municipality. That\u2019s it. It\u2019s that simple. Defund does not mean abolish policing.\u201d In short, Biden\u2019s position on police funding is in line with the mainstream definition of \u201cdefund the police,\u201d a position Biden acknowledges cost the Democrats significantly during the 2020 elections, and will cost them dearly in the Georgia Senate runoffs if left-wing influencers publicly make police reform (Biden\u2019s euphemism for defunding the police) an issue before then.<\/p>\n<p>This could actually be a serious liability for Democrats in Georgia. Democrat candidate Jon Ossoff, while not directly stating that he supported defunding the police,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/%22reforming%20and%20demilitarizing%20policing%20in%20america.%22\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a>\u00a0that he favors \u201creforming and demilitarizing policing in America, and said that funding for certain police departments should be \u201con the line.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Raphael Warnock, the other Democrat running for the U.S. Senate in Georgia, has\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=MljJmqV5OEw&amp;feature=youtu.be\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">compared police to gangsters and thugs<\/a>\u00a0acting \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=AR0h7wDE2iU&amp;feature=youtu.be\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">like bullies on the street<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Joe Biden knows that \u201cdefunding the police\u201d is a poison pill for Democrats\u2019 hopes of winning the majority in the Senate. Hopefully, the GOP knows this, too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biden Urges Dems To Conceal Their Defund the Police Agenda Until After Georgia Runoffs In a recording\u00a0leaked\u00a0to The Intercept, former Vice President Biden appeared to blame the \u201cdefund the police\u201d movement for the Democrats\u2019 shellacking down-ballot in the 2020 elections, and urged liberal civil rights leaders not to put public pressure on his incoming administration &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=62701\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,64,21,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime","category-deceit","category-hypocrisy","category-law-order"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62701","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=62701"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62701\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62703,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62701\/revisions\/62703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}