[VIDEO] Tim Pool talks about what happens when cities such as New York City or Minneapolis choose to defund police. The NY Police Commissioner knows defunding the police affected people living in low-income or people of color areas. Minneapolis has been documented has been seeing high levels of crime i the wake of George Floyd's death.
In fact a shrine for George Floyd in Minneapolis has reportedly seen a lot of crime especially at night.
He really tears into the Minneapolis City Council who voted to defund and abolish their police. Pool thinks these politicians there just looked at twitter and they went with it. And now they hear it from their constituents about high crime. Worse still the city council president is quoted here, however, earlier this summer she was quoted as saying calling police is privilege....
Of course couple this with the ongoing controversy of mask wearing or social distancing. A woman in Ohio was arrested by police for not wearing a mask while watching a youth football game and although she was socially distanced from everyone else. A preacher was arrested for singing outdoors in Moscow, Idaho without a mask.
Also I want to note civilians and police were clashing in London. This is also about these restrictions with regards to the coronavirus. I hear London is experiencing a surge in new infections recently.
So we get police abuse with regards to coronavirus, however, to re-imagine policing there's a roadblock - high crime. Police needs reforms I can agree with that, however, to say everything that's wrong with the world is police and we don't need them is very foolish.
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