A phrase has become a rallying cry, a campaign slogan, and the must-answer question for politicians.

Do you support defunding the police?

You say abolish the police because we mean abolish the police.

Are you for defunding the police?

How are you defining to fund the police?

From WNYC in New York, this is on the media. I'm Bob Garfield.

It's a tricky moment for the entertainment

wing of the police industrial complex. If I knew how to make a police show that would be

dramatically resonant and show the way forward when American policing is in total of

evil, I would quit my job as a critic and become the world's first trillionaire.

Plus online rumors about small town intrusions by big city agitators led to wild presidential

tweets and quixotic strip mall search parties. They went to the Walmart, they went to the T.J. Max.

Someone posted that they had seen a person all in black

at Albertsons and that that was Antifa. There's more coming up after this.

From WNYC in New York, this is on the media. Brooke Gladstone is out this week. I'm Bob Garfield.

There is no longer a statue of Christopher Columbus

outside the Minnesota State House in St. Paul,

Twin City to Minneapolis. The toppling, or reckoning,

was led by members of the American Indian movement

and others who have for years tried to have

the statue removed through official channels.

Another Columbus statue was decapitated in Boston this week, and another was pulled down in

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