“Defunding police means defunding police,” Ocasio-Cortez announced in a June 30 statement – roughly a month after George Floyd’s death. “It does not mean budget tricks or funny math. It does not mean moving school police officers from the NYPD budget to the Department of Education’s budget so the exact same police remain in schools.”

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