Biden on policing: Head-spinning reversals, and a disconnect with Democrat platform – IOTW Report

Biden on policing: Head-spinning reversals, and a disconnect with Democrat platform

Just The News: Just last month, Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden emphatically supported shifting funds away from police, but in 2017 he called for more police on streets and claimed credit for boosting federal funding for policing in the 1994 crime bill.

In a joint interview on Friday with running mate Kamala Harris, Biden reversed his July 2020 position in favor of a stance more in line with his 2017 views — and distinctly out of step with the recently adopted official position of his party.

The Democrats’ 2020 platform rejects “overpoliced and underserved Black and Latino communities,” but in his 2017 book the party’s new presidential nominee praised the 1994 crime bill that put 100,000 more police on streets and decried “fewer and fewer cops on the beat.” more here

4 Comments on Biden on policing: Head-spinning reversals, and a disconnect with Democrat platform

  1. Come on, you can’t expect a doddering senile old fool to remember what he said in 2017, every utterance now is from a prepared text handed to him minutes before.

    But I do feel sorry for the aide that has to introduce Biden to Harris every morning after he shrieks,”What is this black woman doing in my room?”

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