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[quote=jsteele][quote=Anonymous][quote=jsteele]That tweet has an interesting history. Note the date, October, 21, 2019. The "Defund the Police" movement did not really get started until after the death of George Floyd in May 2020. To believe the DC Police Union, DFER — who used the tweet in multiple mailers for which it later apologized because they were deceptive — and Brandon Todd, JLG was six months ahead of the movement. What actually happened is that JLG launched her campaign based on issues such as affordable housing, affordable childcare, and access to healthcare. Among her concerns was the militarization of police who were increasingly receiving military weapons. If you look back at what she was saying at that time, it dealt with preventing this militarization which she wanted to stop and used the funds in more appropriate ways.

The fact that JLG opponents have nothing beyond a 2019 tweet to support their claims that "defund the police" was the "signature issue" of her campaign tells you everything you need to know. That tweet was actually the signature issue of JLG's opponents. As DFER later said with regard to mailers that printed the tweet, "These mailers oversimplified a more nuanced conversation about public safety... We made a mistake".

DFER, to its credit, says it learned from the mistake. The DC Police Union and the anonymous poster here, clearly has not.
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Defund the Police began after the Ferguson Riots, which were in 2014. [/quote]

I can't find any evidence that the slogan was at all popular before George Floyd's death. If you do any Internet searches, the oldest hits are in 2020.
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