{"id":953180,"date":"2021-11-02T10:43:47","date_gmt":"2021-11-02T14:43:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=953180"},"modified":"2021-11-02T10:43:50","modified_gmt":"2021-11-02T14:43:50","slug":"leo-terrell-says-hes-sick-and-tired-of-democrats-using-george-floyd-as-a-basis-for-defunding-the-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/leo-terrell-says-hes-sick-and-tired-of-democrats-using-george-floyd-as-a-basis-for-defunding-the-police\/","title":{"rendered":"Leo Terrell Says He\u2019s \u2018Sick And Tired\u2019 Of Democrats \u2018Using George Floyd As A Basis\u2019 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=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">38<\/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%2Fleo-terrell-says-hes-sick-and-tired-of-democrats-using-george-floyd-as-a-basis-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=953180&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--><p>Civil rights attorney Leo Terrell said Tuesday that he\u2019s \u201csick and and tired\u201d of defund advocates using the death of George Floyd \u201cto cut\u201d or \u201creimagine police departments.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>WATCH:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThroughout the entire country, crime has spiked. Murders have gone up,\u201d Terrell told \u201cFox &amp; Friends.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd I\u2019m sick and tired of them using George Floyd as a basis for trying to cut the police or reimagine police departments \u2026 [when] crime is still rampant.\u201d <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/02\/04\/joe-biden-empty-suit-leo-terrell-president-lukewarm-support-police-not-in-charge\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: \u2018Joe Biden Is An Empty Suit\u2019: Leo Terrell Says President Can Only Offer Lukewarm Support To Police Because He\u2019s Not In Charge)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cLet me be very clear,\u201d Terrell said. \u201cThey were forced. These Democratic cities were forced to refund the police. It is political suicide if they come out \u2026 Have you heard any of these Democratic leaders say \u2018I want more police officers? I want more, more, more money for police?\u2019 They can\u2019t say it because it\u2019s political suicide.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Fox News contributor said support for defunding the police is still very high in Minneapolis, a city that \u201cwants to change the whole concept\u201d of policing. Fox News host Steve Doocy noted that voters will decide Tuesday whether to change the name of the Minneapolis Police Department to that of \u201cpublic safety.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat I\u2019m telling you is that the Democrats do not really support the police. They were compelled to do so because of all of this crime in the nation,\u201d Terrell said.&nbsp; Many cities that were initially enthusiastic about defunding the police have <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/10\/11\/cities-democrats-defund-police-spike-crime\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">rethought that position<\/a> amid a spike in crime.<\/p>\n<p>Terrell said that the tiny suburb of Buckhead wants to <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/06\/18\/buckhead-bill-white-leave-atlanta-high-crime\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">secede from Atlanta<\/a> and establish its own police force.<\/p>\n<p>Although several left-wing Democratic lawmakers <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\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">remain advocates of defunding the police<\/a>, President Joe Biden <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/07\/21\/biden-republicans-democrats-anti-police-lying\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">does not support the concept<\/a>. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/05\/24\/dan-bongino-defunding-police-dumbest-idea-history-liberalism\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: Dan Bongino: \u2018Defunding The Police Is the Single Dumbest Idea In The History Of Liberalism\u2019)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7313058\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" readability=\"35\">\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-7313058\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">President Joe Biden arrives for the COP26 UN Climate Summit on Nov. 1, 2021 in Glasgow, U.K. (Adrian Dennis\/Pool\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cEvery city we\u2019ve talked about are Democratic cities. Because again, if you are a Democratic politician you cannot support the police in the open,\u201d Terrell said.<\/p>\n<p>Terrell also pointed to \u201cthe whole West Coast\u201d as being \u201ca disaster for law enforcement\u201d because police officers are unable to do their jobs because \u201cthey\u2019re basically being limited by Democratic mayors\u201d who are seeing stores being closed \u201cbecause shoplifting and crime is rampant.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Civil rights attorney Leo Terrell said Tuesday that he\u2019s \u201csick and and tired\u201d of defund advocates using the death of George Floyd \u201cto cut\u201d or \u201creimagine police departments.\u201dWATCH:\u201cThroughout the entire &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":143,"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-953180","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\/953180","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\/143"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=953180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/953180\/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=953180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=953180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=953180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}