This is supposed to be an anti-defund the police argument, but all the article does is confirm that cops are way too quick to resort to deadly violence and that they need to be radically changed.
At least with small time gangsters, the deal is no one gets killed if the money is handed over.
But in 2020, US police killed over 1000 people. In many cities, cops kill black men at a higher clip than the national murder rate.
So it turns out that, in a bid to hold on to power, Bolivian dictator Jeanine Añez paid Colombian mercenaries to kill her political opponent days before the 2020 election.
RIP Colin Powell, a war criminal who lied to the UN and to Congress about Saddam Hussein possessing weapons of mass destruction; a lie that cost the lives of over 1 million Iraqis.
Last month, at the UN, Joe Biden put Belarus number one on the list of states in desperate need of regime change.
“We are committed to support the long-suppressed democratic aspirations of the people of Belarus and we stand together to impose costs on the regime for its blatant disregard of international commitments,” the Biden administration wrote, as they announced new sanctions.