{"id":1609070,"date":"2022-08-16T15:19:39","date_gmt":"2022-08-16T19:19:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1609070"},"modified":"2022-08-16T15:19:48","modified_gmt":"2022-08-16T19:19:48","slug":"stacey-abrams-says-she-opposes-defunding-the-police-she-led-a-group-that-wants-to-defund-the-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/stacey-abrams-says-she-opposes-defunding-the-police-she-led-a-group-that-wants-to-defund-the-police\/","title":{"rendered":"Stacey Abrams Says She Opposes Defunding the Police. She Led a Group That Wants To \u2018Defund the Police.\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">36<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fstacey-abrams-says-she-opposes-defunding-the-police-she-led-a-group-that-wants-to-defund-the-police%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1609070&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div>\n\t\t\t<span class=\"article-category\"><a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/democrats\/\">Democrats<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"article-excerpt\">Gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams was &#8216;honored&#8217; to co-chair an organization that gave tens of thousands of dollars to anti-police activists<\/p>\n<figure class=\"post-thumbnail-container relative lg:mr-24 w-full my-4 mb-8\"><figcaption class=\"absolute text-white p-4 w-full text-right text-xs bottom-0 bg-black opacity-75\">\n\t\t\t\tGeorgia Democratic gubernatorial nominee Stacey Abrams \/ Getty Images\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\t\t\t<span class=\"text-gray text-xs md:text-lg\"><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/author\/karl-salzmann\/\" title=\"Posts by Karl Salzmann\" class=\"author url fn text-red-700\" rel=\"author\">Karl Salzmann<\/a> \u2022 August 16, 2022 3:15 pm<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Democratic Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams, who says she opposes defunding the police, co-chaired a left-wing group that gave tens of thousands of dollars to defund-the-police activists, Fox News <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/stacey-abrams-co-chaired-organization-awards-thousands-defund-police-activists\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported<\/a> Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Abrams in April 2021 became the co-chairwoman of the Black Voices for Black Justice Fund, saying in a press release that she was &#8220;honored&#8221; to join the fund, which works with &#8220;Black activists on the ground who understand how racism plays out.&#8221; The fund, which is bankrolled in part by Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg&#8217;s foundation, has awarded thousands of dollars to activists who support abolishing the police.<\/p>\n<p>Abrams is best known for losing the 2018 Georgia gubernatorial election to incumbent Republican Brian Kemp, whom she is again facing in this year&#8217;s election, and then falsely claiming that Kemp stole the election from her.\u00a0Her fellow Democrats, many of whom have called former president Donald Trump&#8217;s claims of election fraud an existential threat to democracy,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/elections\/election-deniers-primary\/\">have not criticized<\/a>\u00a0her claims.<\/p>\n<p>The Black Voices for Black Justice Fund awarded $20,000 to Education Leaders of Color CEO\u00a0Sharhonda Bossier, who <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BossierS\/status\/1266861007638458369\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">tweeted<\/a> in May 2020 that &#8220;it means nothing that these elected officials are expressing support for \u2018peaceful protests'&#8221; and that politicians should instead support efforts to &#8220;defund the police.&#8221; Bossier repeated the call in April 2021, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BossierS\/status\/1387820912867614720\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">tweeting<\/a>, &#8220;We spend SO MUCH money on officer training, etc. If we cannot expect that police can respond to incidents without killing people we should\u2026 DEFUND &#038; ABOLISH THE POLICE.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The fund this year gave out awards to Black Lives Matter Global Network founding member Kei Williams, who has repeatedly expressed support for police defunding, and activist William Jackson, who has <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PPeriod\/status\/1328181686136397826?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1328181686136397826%7Ctwgr%5E42e74148727371af833def602cf266628c5d08bd%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&#038;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.foxnews.com%2Fpolitics%2Fstacey-abrams-co-chaired-organization-awards-thousands-defund-police-activists\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">tweeted<\/a>, &#8220;I&#8217;m for abolishing the police.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Black Voices for Black Justice&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/blackvoices.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">website<\/a> listed Abrams as its co-chairwoman as recently as November, Fox News found. The site now showcases a picture of Abrams and lists her as one of the group&#8217;s two &#8220;co-chairs emeriti.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Abrams&#8217;s campaign told Fox that the candidate &#8220;does not and never has supported defunding the police.&#8221; The campaign did not respond to Fox\u2019s request for comment on whether Abrams disavows the group.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to the Black Voices for Black Justice Fund, Abrams <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/stacey-abrams-governor-foundation-abolish-police\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">remains<\/a> a board member of the Marguerite Casey Foundation, which this year expressed support for defunding the police.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democrats Gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams was &#8216;honored&#8217; to co-chair an organization that gave tens of thousands of dollars to anti-police activists  Georgia Democratic gubernatorial nominee Stacey Abrams<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":162,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1609070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1609070","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/162"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1609070"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1609070\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1609070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1609070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1609070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}