USA:Politician who voted to defund the police has car stolen

[arista]

[A prominent left-wing politician and mayoral candidate
has thanked authorities
for their efforts following the theft of his car,
despite voting to defund the local police
department last year.

Antonio Brown, city council member for Atlanta,
was attending a ribbon-cutting ceremony
on Wednesday afternoon with
local community leader Ben Norman
when his white Mercedes was jacked by four black youths.
“One kid was in the driver’s seat,”
Brown told Fox 5 Atlanta. “Ben attempted to open
the door to get him out of the car.
He fought with Ben. I then engaged and tried to
get him out of the car. The three other kids were
trying to figure out how to get in the car or
stay out of the car. He started to hit on the gas.
Ben let go.

“As he started to speed up,
and I knew that if I had not let go,
I knew I probably could have killed myself
because he was going so fast,
I would have started to tumble.
And I would have hurt him,” he added.]

https://www.fox5atlanta.com/news/theives-steal-car-mayoral-candidate-antonio-brown

[Oliver_W]

I think they call that karma.

[Tom4784]

They'd only call it karma if they had a complete misunderstanding of what defund the police means, as all right wingers seem to have.

[Crimson Dynamo]

coin silly bandwaggon phrases and then prepare to look like a fool

lol

[Oliver_W]

Regardless of what amazingly well thought out and deep meanings are hidden beneath the tagline "Defund The Police", the thing that was being voted (https://theintercept.com/2020/08/17/atlanta-police-city-council/)for would have cut police funding by a third.

Luckily, the councilors saw sense when the police decided to show them what a defunded police force would look like, and went on semi-strike, and of course crime skyrocketed.

[Tom4784]

Regardless of what amazingly well thought out and deep meanings are hidden beneath the tagline "Defund The Police", the thing that was being voted (https://theintercept.com/2020/08/17/atlanta-police-city-council/)for would have cut police funding by a third.

Luckily, the councilors saw sense when the police decided to show them what a defunded police force would look like, and went on semi-strike, and of course crime skyrocketed.

If you choose to purposefully misunderstand what 'defund the police' is and knowingly use that misunderstanding to push a flawed agenda, you are choosing wilful ignorance to justify an increasingly pronounced bias.

The problem is that you're seeing this through a UK lens which the police are underfunded and not through the US lens where the police receive enough of a budget for equipment that would make an army general blush but not enough invested in proper training or background checks which is why the US police shoot more people dead than in any other equivalent country.

Any officer that would choose to strike over such a thing, and more likely over security measures to try to dissuade them from murdering first and asking questions later, well, they're probably some of these 'rare' bad eggs we're told about. Putting people in harm's way to use the crime statistics to justify spending in the wrong places doesn't strike me as something a moral person would do.