Clarence Page: ‘Defund the police’ is bold, but it might just bring necessary change
by Clarence Page, Tribune Content Agency
Jun 12, 2020
3 minutes
When my youth consultant, aka my son, told me that the Black Lives Matter movement had come up with the slogan #DefundThePolice, I thought sarcastically, “Great, what a terrific gift to President Donald Trump’s reelection campaign.”
Full disclosure: I said the same thing about the name of Black Lives Matter itself. In both cases, I soon was proved wrong. Sure, Trump made hay out of using both to smear Democrats and
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