“Police chiefs, the rank and file officers understand the need for change and there has been great change,” Attorney General Barr says. “I think defunding the police ... is wrong, and I think it’s dangerous to demonize police.”
President Donald Trump on Monday also criticized the efforts to defund or disband police departments after Democratic lawmakersMonday sweeping legislation to address racial discrimination in law enforcement and police misconduct.
“There won’t be defunding, there won’t be dismantling of our police, and there’s not going to be any disbanding of our police,” Trump said at a roundtable with law enforcement on Monday.outside the White House last week in which rubber bullets, pepper spray, tear gas, and flash-bang grenades were used to make way for Trump to pose for photos with a Bible at St. John's Episcopal Church.
He said there was already a plan in place to extend the perimeter around the White House prior to last week’s protest at Lafayette Square because the administration was “reacting to three days of extremely violent demonstrations.” Barr also appeared to contradict Trump, who said he only went to the White House bunker during the initial protests to"inspect" it. But Barr said “Things were so bad that the Secret Service recommended the president go down to the bunker.”
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