.@SenatorDurbin says at today's Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Vanita Gupta's nomination that JCN's ad stating Gupta wants to defund the police is "patently false."
You need look no further than *Gupta's own words* to see that Senator Durbin couldn't be more wrong. /1
You need look no further than *Gupta's own words* to see that Senator Durbin couldn't be more wrong. /1
During testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee, Gupta called for leaders to heed calls to “decrease police budgets and the scope, role, and responsibility of police in our lives.” /2
Gupta: “While front-end systems changes are important, it is also critical for state and local leaders to heed calls from Black Lives Matter and Movement for Black Lives activists to decrease police budgets and the scope, role, and responsibility of police in our lives.” /3
More Gupta: "That means not just changing policing practices, but shrinking the footprint of the criminal legal system, including police." /4
Gupta continued: "...it means shifting our approach to public safety away from exclusive investments in criminalization and policing, toward investments in economic opportunity, education, health care, and other public benefits.” /5
If what Gupta has said isn't the very definition of calling to defund the police, I don't know what is. /6
.@SenCruz presses Vanita Gupta on her claim under oath today that she does not support defunding the police, reading her own testimony on the subject from last June back to her. /7
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