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Florida state representative Byron Donalds (R-FL) told Breitbart News Saturday that the left’s push to defund the police and anarchy will lead to a breakaway of minority voters to back President Donald Trump in the 2020 presidential election.

Los Angeles City Council member Mike Bonin hosted an online town hall earlier this week with the local leader of Black Lives Matter — who proceeded to insult his constituents and called them “A-holes.”

Texas Governor Greg Abbott slammed the Austin City Council for its decision to strip $150 million from the capital city’s police department.

Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) earlier this year urged supporters in the wake of protests over George Floyd’s death to donate to a group pushing for the defunding of police.

Several dozen protesters went to the home of the Department of Homeland Security Chad Wolf in Alexandria, Virginia.

Riots and looting broke out in Seattle on Sunday evening ahead of an expected city council vote to defund the police.

Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA) — a prominent advocate of the “Trump-Russia” collusion storyline — is a “rubber stamp” for the “far-left” Democrat Party, said Daniel Gade, the Republican Party’s nominee for the U.S. Senate seat from Virginia. He joined SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Sunday to discuss the political state of play in Old Dominion and across the nation with host Joel Pollak.

A failure of local leadership in Portland, Oregon, threatens to spread to other major U.S. cities if it is not stopped in the Rose City.

Joe Biden claimed Wednesday that, if elected president, he will boost funding for law enforcement in order for police departments to hire social workers — who he says will handle “god-awful” situations that officers cannot.

Crime is soaring in New York City’s Upper East Side, home to many of America’s billionaires, as Democrats, including Mayor Bill de Blasio (D), continue their efforts to defund the police.

Los Angeles will propose an amendment to its city charter to remove $880 million from law enforcement following Black Lives Matter demands.

Tuesday on “CBS This Morning,” former Obama administration National Security Advisor Susan Rice said to end America’s “long history of inequality, of oppression,” we should be “re-imagining the role of the police.”

The Seattle City Council, which previously signaled strong support for halving police funding, appears to be at a crossroads, with some members contending the measure would be impossible to implement this year.

Mike Pence said the Trump administration will increase funding for law enforcement, rejecting Democrat calls to “defund the police.”

The Minneapolis Police Department is advising residents of the city to “Be prepared to give up your cell phone and purse/wallet” if approached by robbers, and “Do not argue or fight with the criminal. Do as they say.”

Police arrested two pro-life students who were chalking the phrase “Black Preborn Lives Matter” in front of a Planned Parenthood abortion facility in Washington, DC, Saturday morning.

House Democrats voted down a motion which would have recommitted $15 million from the left’s “unauthorized program providing free legal assistance to illegal immigrants” and instead applied it to the Byrne Justice Assistance grant program, which provides localities with funding for a range of programs — from assisting local law enforcement to crime prevention and education

Self-proclaimed Marxist and Black Lives Matter (BLM) co-founder Patrisse Cullors called on Democrats to make “sea changes” to their party platform and adopt radical legislation.

The Seattle City Council, which has been mulling a proposal to defund the Seattle Police Department, drafted a resolution which would both defund the police and create a “civilian led department of community safety & violence prevention.”

Many Seattle residents have expressed disapproval of the Seattle City Council’s measure to slash police department funding by half, with one telling the council Wednesday the proposal is a “radical experiment” that will only “hurt the vulnerable.”

Wibaux County, Montana, Sheriff Shane Harrington said in a campaign ad on Wednesday that Montana Gov. Steve Bullock (D) stands with the “liberal mob” on defunding the police, erasing American history, and turning America into a socialist country.

The vast majority of Americans believe criminals should be prosecuted and police should be protected, despite the anti-police, pro-protester narrative dominating the establishment media, surveys show.

Austin City Councilman Jimmy Flannigan proposed the expedited demolition of the city’s police department headquarters. His idea came in a two-part plan to reconstruct/deconstruct the entity in the wake of recent protests and vandalism in the capital city of Texas.

“At night,” the Times admitted, “the space is increasingly a battleground, with shootings and drug overdoses.”

Wednesday on CNN’s “Anderson Cooper 360,” movie mogul and actor Tyler Perry expressed his concerns over the so-called “Defund Police” protests around the country.

Rioters in Portland, Oregon, have expressed their hopes of tearing down “the system” and, ultimately, building a new one based on extreme socialist ideologies.

Mayor of Oakland Libby Schaaf criticized violent Black Lives Matter demonstrations on Monday, issuing a statement complaining that rioters are helping President Donald Trump’s reelection campaign.

Hollywood celebrities are renewing their calls to defund police departments around the country by throwing their support behind a new petition from the Movement 4 Black Lives that is demanding an “end to police terror.”

Democrats have circulated a draft of their proposed 2020 platform. In its present form, it would be the most left-wing platform in the history of U.S. presidential politics.

Oklahoma lawmakers announced new “Back the Blue” legislation Tuesday to offer increased support to police forces in the state.

NYC officials estimate it will take weeks to clean up the grafitti, human waste, and debris left behind by the Occupy City Hall protesters.

Creed star Michael B. Jordan is demanding that Hollywood studios “divest from the police” and prove their support for the Black Lives Matter movement by pouring money into “anti-racist” content.

Fact check -CLAIM: Joe Biden claims that it’s President Donald Trump who wants to “defund the police.” VERDICT: FALSE.

Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer issued Executive Order 2020-155 on Wednesday, which cut $115.07 million from the Michigan State Police budget.

Appearing Tuesday on ABC 15, former Vice President Joe Biden attempted to argue that President Donald Trump is in favor of defunding law enforcement across the United States. 

Calls to “defund the police” appeared to come out of nowhere to the average American — fueled by the anger over the death of George Floyd — however, such demands have been around for nearly a decade, if not longer.