Chris Wallace presses Biden official on defund the police

[DonViejo]

BY DOMINICK MASTRANGELO - 06/27/21 09:32 AM EDT


"Fox News Sunday" anchor Chris Wallace pressed a top aide to President Biden about rising crime rates in the United States and asked him how calls from some progressives to limit funding to police departments may have contributed to that trend.

Citing criticism of Biden this week from Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), Wallace asked Cedric Richmond, a senior White House aide, if Graham "has a point" when the Republican lawmaker blasted Biden's policy on crime.

Graham said: "We have a lack of prosecution. We've declared war on the police, and that is backfiring on those who have done it."

"Senator Graham doesn't have a clue," Richmond responded. "Let's talk about who defunded the police. When we were in Congress last year trying to pass an emergency rescue plan for cities, that were cash strapped and laying off police, it was the Republicans who objected to it ... the truth is they defunded the police. We funded crime intervention and a whole bunch of other things."

Wallace pressed Richmond, who separately suggested s "plethora" of illegal guns on the streets is also a contributing factor to rising crimes rates, telling the former Democratic lawmaker that even if Biden does not support defunding the police, a number of major cities in America have seen mass retirements in law enforcement and have slashed their budget allocations for police in recent months.

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[Scrivener7]

1. We really need to replace that phrase with "demilitarize the police."

[StarfishSaver]

2. It doesn't matter

This attack has nothing to do with what it's called.

[abqtommy]

3. We need to replace Wallace with a person that doesn't have a Reich-Wing agenda.

[oasis]

4. Richmond should have been more emphatic about Dem Party opposition

to the DTP slogan.