Pro-Defund the Police Politicians Stump with Democrat John Fetterman in PhiladelphiaNick Gilbertson 13 Sep 2022
Three city council members from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, who have voiced support for the defunding police, stumped with the state’s Democrat nominee for U.S. Senate, John Fetterman, on Monday.
In a tweet, Fetterman said he “stopped by some of the shops on 52nd St in West Philly today with” Councilmembers Jamie Gauthier, Kendra Brooks, and Isaiah Thomas. He called them “outstanding Councilmembers who are with me in my fight to turn out every vote here in Philly.”
https://twitter.com/JohnFetterman/status/1569413148905508865Fox News’s Kyle Morris was the first to report that all three Philadelphia politicians have “expressed support for efforts to defund police departments.”
Months after the death of George Floyd in May of 2020, which led to a summer of riots and calls to “Defund the Police” from the radical left, Gauthier, a Democrat, told Philadephia Magazine that she supports “the movement to defund the police” and dubbed policing in general as a “racist institution.”
“I do support the movement to defund the police and reimagine what that looks like,” she said but submitted that she did “see a need for police in our society.”
“Although I like the vision — one day having no need for police — it would take a long time for us to get there,” she added. “I don’t want to minimize where [the call for abolition] comes from — it comes from the fact that police are a racist institution.”
After Floyd’s death, Brooks authored an opinion piece in the Philadephia Inquirer in June 2020, where she wrote that “uprisings have made it very clear” and “the people have clear demands: Defund the police and invest in black communities.”
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