{"id":539948,"date":"2021-05-25T13:51:30","date_gmt":"2021-05-25T17:51:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=539948"},"modified":"2021-05-25T13:51:38","modified_gmt":"2021-05-25T17:51:38","slug":"watch-we-are-going-to-defund-the-city-abbott-warns-cities-that-defund-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/watch-we-are-going-to-defund-the-city-abbott-warns-cities-that-defund-police\/","title":{"rendered":"WATCH: \u2018We Are Going To Defund The City\u2019: Abbott Warns Cities That Defund 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\">28<\/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%2Fwatch-we-are-going-to-defund-the-city-abbott-warns-cities-that-defund-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=539948&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\/05\/Screen-Shot-2019-10-23-at-10.02.06-PM.png?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Texas Republican Gov. Greg Abbott, who had already committed to sign a bill that would make it more difficult for cities to defund police, stated bluntly to Fox News\u2019 Harris Faulkner what he planned to do to cities defunding police, asserting, \u201cWe are going to defund the city.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Faulkner noted that Abbott had announced that he would sign a bill that would make it harder for cites to defund their police departments. She pointed out that Abbott\u2019s statement would put him at odds with Democrat-led cites such as Austin, where police took 16 minutes to respond to&nbsp;a 911 call about a shooting on Sunday morning.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"9.5471698113208\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Response times will only get worse. A large department cannot go 2 years with out hiring more officers to keep up with a city the size of Austin, especially when it&#8217;s crime rates keep going up. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/epmTvojs4K\">https:\/\/t.co\/epmTvojs4K<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Justin Berry (@realJustinBerry) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realJustinBerry\/status\/1396614204182908932?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 23, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Abbott responded to the news of the delayed response by tweeting, \u201cThis is what defunding the police looks like. Austin is incapable of timely responding to a victim shot in the head. Texas won\u2019t tolerate this. We\u2019re about to pass a law\u2014that I will sign\u2014that will prevent cities from defunding police. Sanity &amp; safety will return.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"14.292682926829\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">This is what defunding the police looks like.<\/p>\n<p>Austin is incapable of timely responding to a victim shot in the head.<\/p>\n<p>Texas won&#8217;t tolerate this.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re about to pass a law-that I will sign-that will prevent cities from defunding police.<\/p>\n<p>Sanity &amp; safety will return. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/UtQVoUXzBL\">https:\/\/t.co\/UtQVoUXzBL<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Greg Abbott (@GregAbbott_TX) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GregAbbott_TX\/status\/1396643982785105920?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 24, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Faulkner prompted, \u201cGovernor Abbott, good to have you on the program. Those words that you spoke about sanity and safety. That\u2019s not just a promise from you. It sounds much stronger than that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe reason it\u2019s stronger is because \u2014 as you pointed out \u2014 I\u2019m about to sign a law that will ensure that cities in the state of Texas will not be able to defund police,\u201d Abbott asserted. \u201cFirst, the context, and that is, as you pointed out, what\u2019s going on in Minneapolis, where it is both a tragedy and a disaster of what\u2019s going on for the residents of Minneapolis because of the defunding of police. You\u2019ve seen the same thing in Portland and Seattle and Chicago and New York, etc.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHarris, unfortunately, we had the same thing happen here in the state of Texas, where the city of Austin defunded police, which is why you saw that tragic situation reported in Austin, Texas,\u201d he continued. \u201cAnd because Austin defunded police, we wanted to do two things in this session: one, we wanted to make sure that there were going to be consequences for the city of Austin; the second is we wanted to make sure that no other city in the state of Texas would defund police.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo here\u2019s what we\u2019re doing in the state of Texas to put teeth into this law that provides real consequences for cities that do defund the police,\u201d he explained. \u201cOne: we\u2019re going to dry up their revenue sources in a way that basically will put the city out of business. What happens is residents should not be taxed \u2014\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Faulkner interjected, \u201cSo you\u2019re going to defund the city?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are going to defund the city,\u201d Abbott answered. \u201cWe are going to prohibit cities from being able to annex in the future, but also allow people who have been annexed for 30 years to be able to de-annex because they were annexed and they were paying money into the city for the purpose of being able to receive police protection. And then the last thing I\u2019ll add to you, and that is the state of Texas Department of Public Safety, they will provide additional policing in the city of Austin. However, it will be the city of Austin sales tax revenue that will be paying for the state law enforcement to make sure that there will be safety and security in the city of Austin.\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 <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em>member<\/em><\/a><em>.&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Texas Republican Gov. Greg Abbott, who had already committed to sign a bill that would make it more difficult for cities to defund police, stated bluntly to Fox News\u2019 Harris &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2312966,"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\/05\/Screen-Shot-2019-10-23-at-10.02.06-PM.png?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"WATCH: \u2018We Are Going To Defund The City\u2019: Abbott Warns Cities That Defund Police","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-539948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Screen-Shot-2019-10-23-at-10.02.06-PM.png?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"WATCH: \u2018We Are Going To Defund The City\u2019: Abbott Warns Cities That Defund Police","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539948","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=539948"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539948\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2312966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=539948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=539948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=539948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}