Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison says he doesn’t know anyone who supports defunding the police despite attending a campaign event for Minnesota Democrat Rep. Ilhan Omar a few days ago. claimed and condemned.
“I don’t know anyone who thinks we should stop funding the police,” Ellison said at Sunday’s debate.
But critics were quick to point out that Ellison knew at least two people who supported the police payback campaign, and the Republican National Committee said the incumbent Attorney General held a rally supporting Omar and Rep. Kori Bush. noted that he had attended Both have expressed support for calls to limit police funding.
“Two days ago Keith Ellison is with Kori Bush and Ilhan Omar, two of the leading voices in the ‘Defend the Police’ movement,” RNC Research posted on Twitter on Sunday.
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Last year, Omar supported a Minneapolis ballot measure aimed at replacing the city’s police department with a new department of public safety.
“The truth is that our current system hasn’t served our city for a long time,” she wrote in a Star Tribune op-ed at the time. They have said we need a public security system that is rooted in reality.”
Ellison himself supported the same ballot measure, arguing that the city’s police department was part of “an outdated model for law enforcement and safety.”
“Basically, the whole community [Minneapolis] We need and want the possibility of reform and accountability, but the current charter locks and blocks us in outdated models for law enforcement and security. I want to,” he wrote on Twitter.
Democrat Cori Bush doubles down on ‘police defense’ on CNN: ‘absolutely’ still endorses
“This year’s residents [Minneapolis] You can request and perform the first action on your vote.as a resident of [Minneapolis] Where the murder of George Floyd sparked a nationwide call for real reform, I vote YES for public safety and more human rights for all. #Yes4Minneapolis . “
President Bush also supports the police advocacy campaign, defending the policy against criticism within the Democratic Party that it has hurt his chances of winning the election.
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“There’s no data that really shows that saying ‘Stop defending the police’ costs an actual election,” she told CNN last month. “Republicans say stop funding the FBI. You know where are we? Where is our story? Tell me this. Kill the cops.”