{"id":19877,"date":"2020-07-10T11:49:14","date_gmt":"2020-07-10T15:49:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=19877"},"modified":"2020-07-10T11:50:22","modified_gmt":"2020-07-10T15:50:22","slug":"democrat-potus-nominee-joe-biden-recklessly-states-police-have-become-the-enemy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=19877","title":{"rendered":"Democrat POTUS Nominee Joe Biden Recklessly States &#8216;Police Have Become the Enemy&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Watch: Biden Says Police Have \u201cBecome the Enemy\u201d<\/h1>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<h3>Asked if he supported defunding police departments, Biden replies, \u2018Yes, absolutely\u2019<\/h3>\n<p>Infowars.com<\/p>\n<p><strong>Law enforcement has \u201cbecome the enemy\u201d of the people, according to Democrat presidential candidate Joe Biden.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Discussing the left\u2019s campaign to \u201cDefund the police\u201d with <em>Now This<\/em> Wednesday, the former vice president claimed the public has grown weary of over-militarized police rolling into neighborhoods in armored vehicles.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&#x1f6a8; &#x1f6a8;&#x1f6a8;<br \/>Joe Biden says police have &quot;BECOME THE ENEMY&quot; and calls for CUTTING police funding: &quot;Yes, absolutely!&quot; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/hV9KyuqhiX\">pic.twitter.com\/hV9KyuqhiX<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Trump War Room &#8211; Text TRUMP to 88022 (@TrumpWarRoom) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TrumpWarRoom\/status\/1280904345408745472?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 8, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script> <\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u2026surplus military equipment for law enforcement. They don\u2019t need that,\u201d Biden said, conveniently forgetting police militarization <a href=\"https:\/\/www.huffpost.com\/entry\/obama-police-militarization_n_3566478\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">accelerated<\/a> under the Obama administration.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe last thing you need is an armored Humvee coming into a neighborhood. It\u2019s like the military invading. They don\u2019t know anybody. They become the enemy. They\u2019re supposed to be protecting these people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Asked if he supported defunding police departments, similar to what has been done in the New York City where the city council last week approved a $1 billion cut from the NYPD budget, Biden replied, \u201cYes, absolutely.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In contrast, President Donald Trump has always expressed total support for police and calls the idea of defunding law enforcement \u201ccrazy.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered\"><iframe id=\"twitter-widget-1\" class=\"\" title=\"Twitter Tweet\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/embed\/index.html?dnt=false&amp;embedId=twitter-widget-1&amp;frame=false&amp;hideCard=false&amp;hideThread=false&amp;id=1279890194653724672&amp;lang=en&amp;origin=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.infowars.com%2Fwatch-biden-says-police-have-become-the-enemy%2F&amp;theme=light&amp;widgetsVersion=9066bb2%3A1593540614199&amp;width=550px\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-tweet-id=\"1279890194653724672\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Elsewhere in the interview, Biden suffered one of his trademark senior moments when he forgot the words \u201cAmerica first.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered\"><iframe id=\"twitter-widget-2\" class=\"\" title=\"Twitter Tweet\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/embed\/index.html?dnt=false&amp;embedId=twitter-widget-2&amp;frame=false&amp;hideCard=false&amp;hideThread=false&amp;id=1280914698653884416&amp;lang=en&amp;origin=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.infowars.com%2Fwatch-biden-says-police-have-become-the-enemy%2F&amp;theme=light&amp;widgetsVersion=9066bb2%3A1593540614199&amp;width=550px\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-tweet-id=\"1280914698653884416\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<hr \/>\n<div class=\"ifw-player expanded\" data-video-id=\"5ef3880f4f69d4002f8b2ce1\">\n<div><iframe src=\"https:\/\/api.banned.video\/embed\/5ef3880f4f69d4002f8b2ce1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/banned.video\/watch?id=5ef3880f4f69d4002f8b2ce1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The unruly mob provokes police across the country as the Culture War threatens to spiral out of control.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.infowars.com\/watch-biden-says-police-have-become-the-enemy\/\">https:\/\/www.infowars.com\/watch-biden-says-police-have-become-the-enemy\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Watch: Biden Says Police Have \u201cBecome the Enemy\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19877","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19877"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19877\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}