Video Of Cory Booker Teasing Gop Senator Over Defund The Police Goes Viral
The New Jersey Democrat was animated on Tuesday when he teased Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-AL), whose amendment to the Democrats’ 2022 budget resolution would cut federal funding to local governments that defund law enforcement. Some Democrats have distanced themselves from calls to “defund the police,” an idea that gained traction among progressives following the murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis. On the Senate floor, Tuberville said four-fifths of law enforcement across the country was conducted by local and state police departments, adding: “Local leaders across the country have decided the woke thing to do is cancel their city’s police force....