President Donald Trump and the White House do not support mayors reallocating police funding to other programs, said a spokesperson and the president on Monday.
“There won’t be defunding. There won’t be dismantling of our police. There’s not going to be any disbanding of our police,” Trump said, adding that police have “been letting us live in peace and we want to make sure we don’t have any bad actors in there.”
In the wake of George Floyd’s death while in police custody in Minneapolis, protests have erupted across the United States in dozens of cities and towns. Some of the protests turned violent as demonstrators clashed with police, while others set fire to buildings, looted businesses, and committed acts of vandalism. For the past several days, however, the protests have been mostly peaceful.
Trump noted that after Floyd’s death, “sometimes we’ll see some horrible things like we witnessed recently but I say 99.9 – let’s go with 99 percent of them – great, great people and they’ve done jobs that are record-setting.”
During the protests, some city officials have said the would defund or even abolish the police. Among them is New York City Mayor Bill De Blasio, who said on Sunday that the city will move some of its funding from the New York Police Department to social services, while the City Council of Minneapolis said it will abolish its police department but didn’t offer many details.
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