A damaging video of a Kamala Harris interview from 2020 has just resurfaced, proving that the Democrat vice president’s radical agenda includes support for far-left “defund the police” efforts.
During an interview with the “Ebro in the Morning!” radio show on New York City-based HOT 97, then-Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) voiced support for the “defund the police” movement.
However, President Joe Biden’s 2020 campaign started refuting claims that Harris was anti-police justweeks later when she joined the Democrat presidential ticket.
In the video, Harris tells the radio show:
“This whole movement is about rightly saying we need to take a look at these budgets and figure out whether it reflects the right priorities.”
During the June 9, 2020 radio interview, Harris began by saying:
“Defund the police, the issue behind it is that we need to reimagine how we are creating safety.
“And when you have many cities that have one-third of their entire city budget focused on policing, we know that is not the smart way and the best way or the right way to achieve safety.”
At the time, the “defund the police” movement was gaining national momentum following the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis only weeks earlier.
“For too long, the status quo thinking has been, you get more safety by putting more cops on the street,” Harris, a former California prosecutor, continued.
“Well, that’s wrong. Because by the way, if you want to look at upper-middle-class suburban neighborhoods, they don’t have that patrol car.
“They don’t have those police walking those streets.
“But what they do have? They have well-funded schools.
“What they do have is homeownership, high homeownership rates.
“What they do have are thriving small businesses,” Harris said during the show.
“What they do have is access to public health and mental health services.
“So, this whole movement is about rightly saying we need to take a look at these budgets and figure out whether it reflects the right priorities.
“When, today in America, two-thirds of our public school teachers are coming out of their own back pocket to help pay for school supplies when we have, for generations now, been defunding public schools but yet militarizing police departments, we need to have this conversation.
“And critically examine and understand that this is not working. It’s not working,” she continued.
“This is an important conversation and not just a conversation — ’cause to your earlier point, it can’t just be about talk.
“It has to be about forcing change,” Harris also said.
“And this is why, you know, I was out there with folks, and any movement, any progress we have gained has been because people took to the streets.
“And that is what we are seeing today and what gives me a sense of hope is that people who seemingly have nothing in common understand they have this in common and are marching together.”
Harris added that the “defund the police” movement is “about upending the system.”
WATCH:
BREAKING: Footage found of VP Kamala Harris supporting DEFUND THE POLICE:
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"It's about upending the system"
"We need to look at police budgets"
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Shortly after the June 2020 radio interview, Harris was chosen to be Biden’s running mate in August of that year.
Then, in October 2020, Harris’s former press secretary Sabrina Singh was quoted in media reports as saying:
“Joe Biden and Kamala Harris do not support defunding the police, and it is a lie to suggest otherwise.”
“Throughout her career, Sen. Harris has supported increasing funding to police departments and boosting funding for community policing,” Singh reportedly added.
