{"id":431353,"date":"2021-04-16T18:05:12","date_gmt":"2021-04-16T22:05:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=431353"},"modified":"2021-04-16T18:05:15","modified_gmt":"2021-04-16T22:05:15","slug":"kamala-harris-niece-calls-for-defunding-the-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/kamala-harris-niece-calls-for-defunding-the-police\/","title":{"rendered":"Kamala Harris\u2019 Niece Calls For Defunding The Police"},"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\">16<\/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%2Fkamala-harris-niece-calls-for-defunding-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=431353&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><\/div>\n<p>Vice President Kamala Harris\u2019 niece Meena Harris called for defunding the police in a Thursday tweet following the release of body cam footage of an officer who fatally shot a 13-year-old.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe was 13 years old. His hands were in the air. Defund the police,\u201d Meena wrote, apparently referring to the released video showing the killing of <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/04\/15\/adam-toledo-chicago-fatal-shooting\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Adam Toledo<\/a>, 13, by a Chicago police officer on March 29.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" readability=\"12.43125\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">To everyone in my mentions policing my language, let me clarify:<\/p>\n<p>Defund the police.<br \/>Defund the police.<br \/>Defund the police.<br \/>Defund the police.<br \/>Defund the police.<br \/>Defund the police.<br \/>Defund the police.<br \/>Defund the police.<br \/>Defund the police.<br \/>Defund the police.<br \/>Defund the police.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Meena Harris (@meenaharris) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/meenaharris\/status\/1382856563510038532?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 16, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cThe offender still turned with a gun in his hand,\u201d President of the Chicago Police Union&nbsp;John Catanzara <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/04\/16\/chicago-police-fraternal-order-of-police-john-catanzara-adam-toledo-eric-stillman\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">said<\/a> Thursday, defending the officer who shot the boy. \u201cThis occurred in eight-tenths of a second.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe would\u2019ve been justified to shoot multiple times,\u201d Catanzara&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CuomoPrimeTime\/status\/1382870140824477698\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">said<\/a> of the officer on CNN\u2019s \u201cCuomo Prime Time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The idea of \u201cdefunding the police\u201d grew <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2020\/06\/04\/abolish-defund-police-black-lives-matter\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">popular<\/a> within the progressive movement in the wake of nationwide protests in June 2020. \u201cWhat we are demanding, and what I demand, is that we abolish our law enforcement,\u201d Black Lives Matter organizer Natasha Nelson <a href=\"https:\/\/www.star-telegram.com\/news\/local\/fort-worth\/article243272986.html\">said<\/a> at the time. Additionally, a number of celebrities signed a <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2020\/06\/02\/john-legend-megan-rapinoe-jane-fonda-defund-the-police-petition\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">petition<\/a> calling for defunding police departments. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/03\/23\/kamala-meena-harris-misinformation-boulder-shooting-white-men-terrorist-threat-ahmad-al-aliwi-alissa\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: Kamala Harris\u2019 Niece Deletes Tweet That Assumed Boulder Mass Shooter Was A White Guy)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Former President Barack Obama, however, criticized the \u201csnappy slogan\u201d in an interview from December 2020, saying that it hurts activist efforts.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI guess you can use a snappy slogan like \u2018defund the police,\u2019 but you lost a big audience the minute you say it, which makes it a lot less likely that you\u2019re actually going to get the changes you want done,\u201d Obama said at the time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vice President Kamala Harris\u2019 niece Meena Harris called for defunding the police in a Thursday tweet following the release of body cam footage of an officer who fatally shot a &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2276148,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-431353","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\/431353","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=431353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431353\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2276148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=431353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=431353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=431353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}