{"id":634023,"date":"2021-08-11T15:51:24","date_gmt":"2021-08-11T19:51:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=634023"},"modified":"2021-08-11T15:51:28","modified_gmt":"2021-08-11T19:51:28","slug":"biden-nominee-praised-movement-to-defund-police-in-interview-with-chinese-state-tv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-nominee-praised-movement-to-defund-police-in-interview-with-chinese-state-tv\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden Nominee Praised Movement to Defund Police in Interview With Chinese State TV"},"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%2Fbiden-nominee-praised-movement-to-defund-police-in-interview-with-chinese-state-tv%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=634023&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 readability=\"29.518367346939\">\n\t\t\t<span class=\"article-category\"><a class href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/democrats\/\">Democrats<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"article-excerpt\">Carlton Waterhouse has come under fire for racially driven politics<\/p>\n<figure class=\"post-thumbnail-container relative lg:mr-24 w-full my-4 mb-8\">\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"736\" height=\"514\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.freebeacon.com\/up\/2021\/08\/Screen-Shot-2021-08-11-at-3.35.56-PM_736x514.png\" class=\"w-full lazyload blur-up wp-post-image\" alt srcset=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 736px) 100vw, 736px\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Screen-Shot-2021-08-11-at-3.35.56-PM_736x514.png 736w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Screen-Shot-2021-08-11-at-3.35.56-PM_736x514-300x210.png 300w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Screen-Shot-2021-08-11-at-3.35.56-PM_736x514-703x491.png 703w\" data-sizes=\"auto\" \/><figcaption class=\"absolute text-white p-4 w-full text-right text-xs bottom-0 bg-black opacity-75\">\n\t\t\t\tCarlton Waterhouse \/ YouTube screenshot\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\/chuck-ross\/\" title=\"Posts by Chuck Ross\" class=\"author url fn text-red-700\" rel=\"author\">Chuck Ross<\/a> \u2022 August 11, 2021 3:50 pm<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<div readability=\"98.500488440247\">\n<p>President Joe Biden&#8217;s nominee for a top post at the Environmental Protection Agency supports the movement to defund police, a position he advocated for last year in an interview with one of China&#8217;s state-controlled propaganda networks.<\/p>\n<p>Carlton Waterhouse, the director of the Environmental Justice Center at Howard University, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=O_qlVhfcGHo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">told<\/a> China&#8217;s CGTN that he supports reallocating resources from traditional policing to fund education, health, and community services. He also joined dozens of scholars in signing <a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/@solidarityinthemoment\/a-time-for-solidarity-8a1ce0e52210\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">an open letter<\/a> organized by the #DefundThePolice Solidarity network. The scholars decried the &#8220;fundamental violence&#8221; of police and prisons and said they supported the police abolitionist movement.<\/p>\n<p>Waterhouse is unlikely to have a say in the Biden administration&#8217;s policies on policing, but his remarks contradict the president&#8217;s claim last month that Republicans were &#8220;lying&#8221; when they say Democrats want to defund police. While Biden and many Democratic leaders say they oppose the movement, progressive Democrats, including members of the &#8220;Squad,&#8221; have called for defunding the police.<\/p>\n<p>Biden nominated Waterhouse to serve as deputy assistant administrator for the EPA&#8217;s Office of Land and Emergency Management. The agency <a href=\"https:\/\/www.epa.gov\/newsreleases\/epa-announces-additional-biden-harris-appointees-0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">praised<\/a> Waterhouse as an international expert on &#8220;reparations and redress for historic injustices.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Waterhouse&#8217;s interview with CGTN highlights the Chinese government&#8217;s efforts to capitalize on social justice unrest in the United States. NPR <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2020\/06\/03\/868566978\/in-george-floyd-protests-china-sees-a-powerful-propaganda-opportunity\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported<\/a> in the wake of the George Floyd protests last year that China&#8217;s propagandists aired footage from the protests in part to deflect criticism of Beijing&#8217;s human rights record.<\/p>\n<p>CGTN interviewed Waterhouse amid the Floyd protests. Waterhouse said he &#8220;absolutely&#8221; supported the idea of shifting resources from traditional policing to community services.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In all honesty, if you think about all of our major police forces, we have spent all of our money on a possible cure rather than putting it into education, health, and social services,&#8221; Waterhouse said in the interview, which was <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bidennoms\/status\/1425478604847202308\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">uncovered<\/a> by the American Accountability Foundation.<\/p>\n<p>Waterhouse joined a group of scholars offering full-throated support for the defund movement in an open letter released in August 2020.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The empowerment of police in this country is the empowerment of state violence against black, indigenous, and Latinx people to maintain their subordination and preserve the upwards distribution of wealth,&#8221; they wrote.<\/p>\n<p>The scholars said they &#8220;commit to solidarity with abolitionist organizing and movements.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Waterhouse is already facing opposition to his nomination in the Senate over his past comments on race and social justice. He has supported race-based reparations and said in 2015 that police shootings were a &#8220;symptom&#8221; of &#8220;white racial dominance,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/biden-epa-nominee-address-allegations-racism?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A%20foxnews%2Fpolitics%20%28Internal%20-%20Politics%20-%20Text%29\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">according<\/a> to Fox News.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Carlton Waterhouse is a political activist who supports fringe environmental and racist policies,&#8221; Sen. Tom Cotton (R., Ark.) told Fox News.<\/p>\n<p>Waterhouse did not respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democrats Carlton Waterhouse has come under fire for racially driven politics  Carlton Waterhouse \/ YouTube screenshot  Chuck Ross \u2022 August 11, 2021 3:50 pm &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":2315279,"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-634023","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\/634023","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\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=634023"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/634023\/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=634023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=634023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=634023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}