While the President of the United States was tweeting about Colin Powell not voting for him, Sen. Kamala Harris, Sen. Cory Booker and other Democratic lawmakers were working on creating legislation around comprehensive police reform, which was announced this morning (June 8).
Trying to answer her question, Harris said, “So Meghan, I think that a big part of this conversation really is about reimagining how we do public safety in America.
We have confused the idea that to achieve safety, you put more cops on the street instead of understanding to achieve safe and healthy communities, you put more resources into the public education system of those communities, into affordable housing, into home ownership, into access to capital for small businesses, access to health care regardless of how much money people have.”
Harris further explained her plan on how to create healthy communities when McCain retorted with, “Are you for defunding the police?”
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Harris explained again repeating herself saying,, “We need to reimagine public safety in America," and continued, “to have cities where one-third of their entire budget is going to police, but yet there is a dire need in those same cities for mental health resources, for resources going into public schools, for resources going into job training and job creation?
