DEFUNDING THE POLICE
The Hartmann Report
Thom Hartmann
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🗓️ 13 June 2020
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
Are Conservatives Considering Going After Police Too? (w/ Julio Rivera)
The brutality of police has gotten a lot of people on the side of Black Lives Matter... but did you ever expect Julio Rivera to be on our side?
What grotesque police organization is forcing even the most dyed in the wood conservative to reconsider Donald Trump's special group of armed men?
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Tom Hartman program. |
| 0:15.0 | Well, the headline over at Raw Story, an article by Brad Reed reads, |
| 0:21.0 | Neighbors Stunned as cop takes down black Amazon driver for parking |
| 0:26.3 | the wrong way. |
| 0:28.2 | He parked on the wrong side of the street with his car facing the wrong direction. |
| 0:32.2 | A neighborhood in Warren, Michigan expressed |
| 0:33.9 | shock this week when local police took down a black Amazon driver from merely parking the |
| 0:38.3 | wrong way on their street. Fox 2 Detroit reports the witnesses say the Amazon driver was tackled by a police |
| 0:43.8 | officer and they go through the whole thing he called in help they he ended up |
| 0:47.4 | with three cops sitting on him pretty strange stuff what do I'm, you know, this defund the police is basically a call to do the same thing that the Republican Party has been talking about doing with Obamacare for quite some time, which is repeal and replace. |
| 1:03.6 | Let's get to gender and racial equality |
| 1:05.8 | in our police departments to reflect the communities. |
| 1:08.3 | Let's have helpers for the police. |
| 1:11.0 | You know, there's a lot of things that cops are called on to do that really don't require cops. |
| 1:14.3 | They require things like mental health professionals. |
| 1:16.4 | Police can be effective when they can only be effective when they're considered |
| 1:19.7 | legitimate by their communities. And therefore, frankly, I think they should live in their |
| 1:24.0 | communities where they work and I think that they should have malpractice |
| 1:26.8 | insurance. On the line with us, Is Julio Rivera, our old buddy, the |
| 1:30.4 | editorial director, our times columnists with |
| 1:33.0 | newsmax American thinker in town hall dot com |
| 1:35.6 | is his website and his Twitter handle is oh yeah y eah h oh yeah it's |
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