If you see anyone claiming Biden wants to defund the police, direct them to this,

[highplainsdem]

the Justice page on his website

https://joebiden.com/justice/

and this paragraph in particular:

Reinvigorate community-oriented policing. Policing works best when officers are out of their cruisers and walking the streets, engaging with and getting to know members of their communities. But in order to do that, police departments need resources to hire a sufficient number of officers. Biden spearheaded the Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) program, which authorized funding both for the hiring of additional police officers and for training on how to undertake a community policing approach. However, the program has never been funded to fulfill the original vision for community policing. Biden will reinvigorate the COPS program with a $300 million investment. As a condition of the grant, hiring of police officers must mirror the racial diversity of the community they serve. Additionally, as president, Biden will establish a panel to scrutinize what equipment is used by law enforcement in our communities.

Thanks to Sam Stein for pointing this paragraph out on Twitter:

Link to tweet

[still_one]

1. Thanks highplainsman

[highplainsdem]

3. You're welcome!

[Iliyah]

2. Also the mayor of Minneapolis . . .

Mayor Frey came to the protest and was booted out "walk of shame" . . because he was against defunding the police.

When asked about it on ABC morning show, he replied that the protestors had the right to peacefully express themselves (1st amendment).

This took courage wherein majority of republicans do not have.

[maximusveritas]

4. Thanks, but the facts won't matter. The more that other Democrats accept this bad messaging

and talk about defunding, it will hurt Biden no matter what he says. The Republicans will try to push some of the extremists talking about defunding to demand that Biden and the Democrats go along with it, all to divide the party along racial lines. This has the potential to win the election for Donald Trump if it is not rejected publicly by prominent Democrats.

[JonLP24]

5. Democrats need to start calling out the right wing extremists for who they are

They want to go back to the dark ages on abortion and they need a lot of fake news & propaganda to stay in power.

Trump's approval ratings are below 40% and the poll numbers for his handling of race relations is below 40%. Need to stop normalizing him and start calling him out but I swear the Democrats are ruled by fear.