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In a Wednesday appearance on ABC News’ “Good Morning America,” Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) sounded off on her support of defunding police departments in the wake of George Floyd’s death while in Minneapolis police custody.

Homicides rose by 250% in Los Angeles, and the number of shooting victims rose by 56%, during the week ending June 6, according to the Los Angeles Police Department — the same week as the Black Lives Matter protests and riots.

Sen. Ed Markey and Rep. Joe Kennedy III openly supported the growing calls to defund the police during a televised debate on Monday.

Anti-police New York officials are asking officers to “abandon” their communities after decades of successfully reducing violent crime, New York City Police Benevolent Association Chief Pat Lynch says.

Grammy-winning singer John Legend defended efforts to defund the police, writing that “we spend far too much” on law enforcement and that “there should be significantly fewer police” in this country.

Tuesday on Fox News Channel’s “Your World,” while discussing the nationwide response to George Floyd’s death, House Majority Whip Jim Clyburn (D-SC) said the only violence he saw in Washington D.C. was police on horseback moving back peaceful protesters last Monday.

Democrat leaders in Congress this week repudiated the “defund the police” calls across the country that have grown increasingly loud among some of their colleagues, other leftists, and protesters in the wake of the death of George Floyd while in Minneapolis police custody.

Former Vice President Joe Biden’s campaign is remaining quiet about its staffers donating to a criminal justice group championing the defunding of police. 

Twice-failed presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) has come out against abolishing police departments nationwide as Black Lives Matter and fellow far-left Democrats call for the defunding of police in the wake of George Floyd’s death.

Oscar-winning actress Natalie Portman writes that she overcame personal doubts about the “Defund the Police” cause — which she supported by signing an open letter demanding that action from local governments — when she acknowledged her “white privilege.”

Lara Logan, a former CBS News journalist who was gang raped in Egypt in 2011, slammed Minneapolis City Council President Lisa Bender after Bender declared that calling the police for help comes from a “place of privilege.”

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) on Tuesday addressed the controversy over the widespread call to “defund” the police, attempting to offer a quick explainer on the demand for action but warning that the message should not be repackaged “to make it palatable for largely affluent, white suburban ‘swing’ voters.”

The United Teachers Los Angeles (UTLA), representing teachers and support staff in the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD), called Monday for the elimination of the 400-member police force protecting schools in the district.

Celebrated evangelical pastor Franklin Graham has slammed the leftwing movement to defund law enforcement as a recipe for anarchy.

The mayor of San Jose, California, said on Sunday he is against the so-called defund police movement that’s taken root in the wake of the death of George Floyd, a black man who died at the hands of the Minneapolis police, saying it would hurt the communities activists say they want to help.

The owner of a manufacturing plant in Minneapolis, Minnesota, says he will move his business out of the city after officials failed to protect his livelihood from being set on fire in riots this month. 

Sean Parnell torched Rep. Conor Lamb (D-PA) for marching with protesters who wish to defund Pennsylvania’s police officers.

NYPD’s $6 billion police budget is “unethical,” Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), who has jumped aboard the progressive “defund the police” mantra, said on Sunday.

The White House says that President Donald Trump’s decision to push for a surge in National Guard troops in American cities last week has paid off.

NYPD Commissioner Dermot Shea on Monday expressed support for diverting funds away from the police department and to other areas, like youth programs.

Former Vice President Joe Biden published an op-ed in the Los Angeles Times this weekend in which he said that “no one can stay silent” about “systemic racism” — though he did not say what the term “systemic racism” actually means.

President Donald Trump’s re-election campaign on Monday criticized former Vice President Joe Biden for failing to reject the radical leftist movement to “defund the police.”

Monday, MSNBC’s Al Sharpton weighed in on the push across the country to defund or even abolish police departments in some cases in the wake of George Floyd’s death while in Minneapolis police custody.

John Oliver used Sunday’s edition of his HBO show, Last Week Tonight, to defend the Black Lives Matter movement and its specific demand to “defund the police.”

President Donald Trump reaffirmed his support for law enforcement on Monday, warning against the radical left’s demands to defund the police.

A veto-proof majority of the Democrat-dominated Minneapolis City Council promised a Black Lives Matter protest a “police-free future.”

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio is vowing to cut funding for the New York City Police Department (NYPD) even as violent crime soars.

New York 11th congressional district Republican candidate Nicole Malliotakis labeled Rep. Max Rose (D-NY) a “disgrace” for marching with protesters that want to defund the police.

Joe Biden’s campaign was asked Sunday to comment on the demands across the nation to defund the police, but he did not want to talk about it.

Lee Merritt, one of the lawyers representing the family of George Floyd, told Breitbart News on Sunday that the arrest of the four police officers involved in Floyd’s death only came about as a result of “chaos” nationwide.

Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey (D) appeared to cry while wearing as mask as he knelt before George Floyd’s casket at Floyd’s memorial.

Americans’ confidence in their police departments has barely moved since 2014, even amid the national uproar over the police-caused death of a black man in Minneapolis, according to a June 3 poll by National Public Radio (NPR) and the PBS NewsHouse.

Protesters in New Haven, Connecticut, Friday demanded the state defund the city’s police force and the money be redirected to city schools and affordable housing.

Minneapolis, Minnesota, city officials say the city will “dismantle” the Minneapolis Police Department (MPD) and “replace” the agency.

Zack Beauchamp, senior correspondent for left-wing “explainer” website Vox.com, apologized Thursday for criticizing calls by Democrats and Black Lives Matter activists to “abolish the police.”