You can tell that it was a real screw-up for Joe Biden to acquiesce to the “defund the police” movement by how aggressively the national media try to help him clean it up.
On the second day of the Republican National Convention, CNN’s Jake Tapper took issue with President Trump’s son Eric, who observed, correctly, that Biden, the Democratic nominee, has said he is in favor of defunding the police.
“Eric Trump, like so many other speakers at this convention, said things that weren’t true,” Tapper babbled. “I mean, Joe Biden’s plan for policing actually involves more community-based police in black and brown neighborhoods, not defunding police. That’s not true.”
CNN “fact-checker” Daniel Dale soon after said something similar on-air after earlier tweeting a Biden defense.
Again, it is not true that, as Eric Trump claimed, “Biden has pledged to defund the police”; he has explicitly, repeatedly rejected this idea.
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) August 26, 2020
Whenever something is declared with such certainty, without any real proof offered up at hand, that’s a dead giveaway that it’s probably a lie — or, at least misleading.
And that’s exactly what the CNN claims were.
There is no turning back the clock on what Biden said in an interview last month when he was asked, “Do we agree that we can redirect some of the funding [to police departments]?” The former vice president enthusiastically replied, “Yes, absolutely!”
Contrary to Jake Tapper’s assertion, there’s no serious attempt by Biden to flood minority neighborhoods with police. The Biden campaign website says that as president, Biden will dump money into policing programs — but only after unrealistic conditions are met. For example, one block of money is tied to hiring more police officers who “must mirror the racial diversity of the community they serve.”
This is a problem with no solution, other than forcing black people and Latinos into becoming cops.
What happens if black Americans and Latinos in minority-dense communities don’t want to become cops? Back in 2016, Dallas Police Chief David Brown, who is black, told Black Lives Matter protesters that if they wanted to see changes in the way cops related with the community: “We’re hiring. Get off that protest line and put an application in.”
He wouldn’t have had to say that if there had already been overwhelming desire among racial minorities to become policemen.
Biden isn’t interested in increasing police funding. It’s the opposite, even if CNN tries covering for him.
