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    What Protesters Mean When They Say “Defund The Police”

    “In movement politics, there's no specific leader to say ‘this is what we are behind,’ and so all of these people have different definitions of the same term."

    The date... June 12! The time... News O'Clock!

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    And we talk with BuzzFeed News Politics reporter Ryan Brooks about the calls on the streets to defund the police versus people pushing for full-on abolition.

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