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Merrick Garland, President Joe Biden's nominee to be attorney general, told the Senate Judiciary Committee on Monday that he does not support efforts to "defund the police."

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February 23, 2021

Merrick Garland, President Joe Biden's nominee to be attorney general, told the Senate Judiciary Committee on Monday that he does not support efforts to "defund the police." His quick "no" was backed by weird reasoning. “We saw how difficult the lives of police officers were in the bodycam videos we saw when they were defending the Capitol," Garland told the committee.

Unfortunately for Garland, that answer makes no sense, Hayes Brown writes. "Any debate over funding for police locally in response to brutal tactics deployed against minority communities can’t be applied to the police’s actions to defend members of Congress from an armed mob," Brown continues.

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