CNN panelist likens defunding police to uprooting weeds from a yard

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A CNN panelist compared policing in the United States to “weeds” in a yard that must be uprooted in order to change the “most violent country in the world.”

“What we’re seeing now is we’re continuously — every two days, there’s another video that comes out where there’s an abuse of power with state-sanctioned violence,” Black Votes Matter co-founder LaTosha Brown told host John King on Tuesday night.

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