{"id":435623,"date":"2021-04-20T15:20:56","date_gmt":"2021-04-20T19:20:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=435623"},"modified":"2021-04-20T15:21:02","modified_gmt":"2021-04-20T19:21:02","slug":"report-the-squad-spent-thousands-on-private-security-while-demanding-police-be-defunded","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/report-the-squad-spent-thousands-on-private-security-while-demanding-police-be-defunded\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: \u2018The Squad\u2019 Spent Thousands On Private Security While Demanding Police Be Defunded"},"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\">26<\/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%2Freport-the-squad-spent-thousands-on-private-security-while-demanding-police-be-defunded%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=435623&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><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/fb_image-2969.jpeg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"  style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p>The group of female, progressive federal legislators nicknamed \u201cThe Squad\u201d spent tens of thousands of dollars on private security and \u201csecurity services\u201d in the first quarter of 2021 while publicly supporting a push to \u201cdefund the police\u201d over concerns of institutionalized racism, according to a new report <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/04\/19\/squad-members-defund-police-spent-thousands-private-security-protect-themselves-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-ilhan-omar-ayanna-pressley-cori-bush\/\">from the Daily Caller<\/a>, based on FEC documents filed by four \u201cSquad\u201d members.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFEC reports show Democrats New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Minnesota\u00a0Rep. Ilhan Omar, Massachusetts\u00a0Rep. Ayanna Pressley,\u00a0and Missouri\u00a0Rep. Cori Bush each spent thousands of dollars on their own security,\u201d the Daily Caller reported. \u201cThe payments were described in the FEC filings as either \u2018security\u2019 or \u2018security services.&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The legislators are believed to have spent nearly $70,000 for private security all the while demanding that police be \u201cdefunded\u201d and that tax dollars meant for law enforcement be rerouted to community welfare organizations and police duties be reassigned to social workers, leaving communities unprotected.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIndividually, AOC spent $24,279.13 on \u2018security\u2019 on January 25, 2021, and $3,986.60 on \u2018security services\u2019 on January 19, 2021, and $849.22 on \u2018security services\u2019 on February 2. On February 25, she spent on 24&#038;7 Security &#038; Investigation, Inc., and the details read \u2018security detail in Houston,&#8217;\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ibtimes.sg\/squads-hypocrisy-aoc-ilhan-omar-rashida-tlaib-spend-top-dollar-security-while-pressing-56950\">per the International Business Times, citing the Daily Caller\u2019s research<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Ilhan Omar \u201cspent $3,103.61 for her personal security,\u201d according to her quarterly expenditure report. \u00a0Ayanna Pressley spent $4,186.75. Cori Bush spent $30,000 all on her own.<\/p>\n<p>Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) also a member of \u201cThe Squad\u201d who routinely accuses police of being killers, is alleged to have spent \u201cthousands.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>All four women are on the record as opposing continued spending for law enforcement, and both Ocasio-Cortez and Tlaib, the Daily Caller notes, have been adamant that \u201cDefund the Police\u201d means \u201cdefund the police,\u201d and that, despite criticism \u2014 even from former President Barack Obama \u2014 the policy will work.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDefunding police means defunding police,\u201d Ocasio-Cortez said in response to New York City\u2019s decision to strip $1 billion from the NYPD. \u201cIt does not mean budget tricks or funny math. It does not mean moving school police officers from the NYPD budget to the Department of Education\u2019s budget so the exact same police remain in schools.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201dRosa Parks was vilified &#038; attacked for her civil disobedience. She was targeted. It\u2019s hard seeing the same people who uplift her courage, attack the movement for Black lives that want us to prioritize health, funding of schools &#038; ending poverty, rather than racist police systems,\u201d Tlaib tweeted in response to Obama\u2019s suggestion that \u201cDefund the Police\u201d was a \u201csnappy\u201d slogan rather than a policy map. \u201c\u2018We lose people in the hands of police. It\u2019s not a slogan but a policy demand. And centering the demand for equitable investments and budgets for communities across the country gets us progress and safety.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Omar, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ibtimes.sg\/squads-hypocrisy-aoc-ilhan-omar-rashida-tlaib-spend-top-dollar-security-while-pressing-56950\">International Business Times added<\/a>, advocated for dismantling police departments and starting again from scratch, with police responsibilities re-delegated to other service providers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201dYou can\u2019t really reform a department that is rotten to the root,\u201d she said. \u201cWhat we are saying is the current infrastructure that exists as policing in our city should not exist anymore, and we can\u2019t go about creating a different process with the same infrastructure in place.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\">member<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The group of female, progressive federal legislators nicknamed \u201cThe Squad\u201d spent tens of thousands of dollars on private security and \u201csecurity services\u201d in the first quarter of 2021 while publicly &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2276323,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/fb_image-2969.jpeg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"Report: \u2018The Squad\u2019 Spent Thousands On Private Security While Demanding Police Be Defunded","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-435623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/fb_image-2969.jpeg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"Report: \u2018The Squad\u2019 Spent Thousands On Private Security While Demanding Police Be Defunded","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435623","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=435623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435623\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2276323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=435623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=435623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=435623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}