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Addendum: Minneapolis should also be considered, as their local government took similar actions which resulted in similar - predictable - results: https://hotair.com/archives/ed-morrissey/2020/09/16/minneapo...

And they ask "where are the police?" after defunding the police.

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The police have not been defunded in either Minneapolis or NYC. They have decided—while fully funded—to stop doing their jobs to punish the cities that tried to hold them accountable for their abuses.

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And they ask "where are the police?" after unanimously deciding to defund (rather, abolish) the police.

So an entire police force must be abolished because of the alleged abuses of a few?

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