Posted on 06/09/2020 12:01:35 PM PDT by knighthawk
Sen. Bernie Sanders is making clear that he doesn’t support defunding or abolishing police departments – but instead wants more training and better pay for police officers as part of his push for criminal justice reform.
In an interview with The New Yorker magazine, the progressive independent lawmaker from Vermont said “do I think we should not have police departments in America? No, I don’t. There’s no city in the world that does not have police departments.”
But Sanders – who in April ended his second straight bid for the Democratic presidential nomination – emphasized that he’s calling for “for police departments that have well-educated, well-trained, well-paid professionals. And, too often around this country right now, you have police officers who take the job at very low payment, don’t have much education, don’t have much training—and I want to change that.”
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Too late, you already lit the radical fuse.
They’ve even veered too far off the reservation for Bernie! ha ha
“Hey, Bernie! What if we give you another house on a lake, would you agree then?”
Bernie sounds like a conservative now!!!
Hell just got a little closer to freezing.
BLM is too commie for even Commie Bernie, that is how nuts these people are..even Bernie thinks they are whacko
Sorry Bernie, the genie is out of the bottle.
Sanders can be surprisingly authentic on occasions. But, I till don’t trust him. But, I will give him his due.
The local cops are the only thing between Bernie and a Vermont lynch mob. He has a vested interest in maintaining the status quo.
WOW are they getting push-back from the Police-Firefighter Unions.
He too white.
In short summary, this is an outright admission that Bernie can’t afford enough private security to keep an eye on all his houses at the same time.
Hope the lefties confront him and his privilege at one of his houses!
Then by BLM's standards, he is a cross-burning racist.
Curb my enthusiasm.
They are kicking many active voters inclined to vote Dem to the curb, not a good strategy.
Before the end of the week, they’ll have his head on a pike. That’s how these things go.
Actually Bernie is smart enough to know that a properly politicized and indoctrinated police force can prove invaluable when rounding up one’s political enemies. Bernie is an oldschool bolshevik, not one of these young whippersnappers.
Bern wonders who he can call to report kids on his lawn(s)
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