Members of the progressive team-left group dubbed “the Squad” have long been vocal about their desire to defund the police.
Meanwhile, ironically enough, they spend thousands of dollars on private security to protect themselves: selective bigotry at its finest.
According to Federal Election Commission records, New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar, Massachusetts Rep. Ayanna Pressley and Missouri Rep. Cori Bush each spent thousands of dollars on their own private security.
In January of 2020, Ocasio-Cortez criticized New York City’s proposed $1 billion cut from the police department budget, claiming it wasn’t enough.
“Defunding police means defunding police,” Ocasio-Cortez said. “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.”
Let’s look directly at the numbers.
In January, February and March of 2021, Ocasio-Cortez spent $3,000 per month on a security consultant. That’s a whopping $9,000 for just 3 months.
But that’s not all, as reported by the Daily Caller.
- January 25, 2021: $24,279.13
- January 19, 2021: $3,986.60
- February 2, 2021: $849.22
- February 25, 2021: $1552.50 at “Security & Investigation, Inc.” for “security detail in Houston”
Omar, who has also heavily advocated to defund the police, spent $3,103.61 on her own security in Minnesota, according to her April Quarterly 2021 financial report:
- January 20, 2021: $66.97
- January 29, 2021: $202.70
- February 19, 2021: $66.97
- February 26, 2021: $2,700
- March 16, 2021: $66.97
Pressley spent $4,186.75, according to her April Quarterly 2021 financial report:
- $1,292 on January 26, 2021
- $1,267.50 on January 27, 2021
- $675.25 with ADT security on March 4, 2021
- $252 on March 9, 2021
- $700 on March 19, 2021
Lastly, Cori Bush, a freshman democrat, spent over $30,000 on private security services.
- January 18, 2021: $1060
- January 21, 2021: $5,000
- January 25, 2021: $530
- February 17, 2021: $7,743.75
- February 25, 2021: $5,000
- February 26, 2021: $5,812
- March 15, 2021: $5,000
- March 15, 2021: $2,456. 25
With all due respect, Mr. President—let’s talk about losing people. We lost Michael Brown Jr. We lost Breonna Taylor. We’re losing our loved ones to police violence.
It’s not a slogan. It’s a mandate for keeping our people alive. Defund the police. https://t.co/Wsxp1Y1bBi
— Cori Bush (@CoriBush) December 2, 2020
The hypocrisy is unmatched.
Unfortunately, not every American has the ability to spend thousands of dollars on personal security. The Squad’s calls to defund the police would disproportionately affect millions of Americans, while they remain essentially untouchable.
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City Police departments should not honor these private security firms if these people come to their towns.
Should be like the old west when the sheriff says, check your guns boys or you cannot enter. Let’s put the pressure back on these incompetents.
TIME TO PUBLICLY name and shame each and every ‘security company’, giving these hacks protection..
How about defund welfare. But what’s scary a Muslim is talking about defund police.
Does that mean you can defend yourself without repercussions?
Here’s the thing…. ultimately, the Left does not want to “defund” the police. What they really want to do is “reallocate”… and by that, I mean they want to NATONALIZE all local, county, and state police departments. They want to have a single “federal police department” with the cops controlled by the executive branch. Why, you may ask? ……because THEN, any and all gun control laws will be enforced. Right now, we’ve got the vast majority of county sheriffs and police chiefs all over the nation saying that they will not enforce unconstitutional gun-grabs. BUT, if you can get rid of all local/state control, you can put the proper jackbooted thugs in place who WILL carry out the wishes of the communists now controlling the federal government..
In other words the left wants to replace all police forces with an Americanized version of the KGB.
Pretty much.. THEY WANT the reigns of power. period.. COPS ensure their power stays in place.
Now if what you suggest might happen ain’t unconstitutional, I don’t know what is!!! AND if we actually let that happen, we deserve to lose our freedoms!
I agree. iF WE don’t fight this, and now, we deserve what happens next.
There is nothing progressive about Progressives nor liberal about Liberals. These are just names they have given themselves.
Go ahead defund the police just wait till the criminals get to the people who just want to be left alone, we will take care of them.
I’ve often day dreamed about giving all libtards who hate guns a great choice.
I will give them all what they want. NO AMERICAN, can ever again own, hold or shoot a firearm. PERIOD. Unfortunately that includes ALL cops, all military, all security guards etc..
Then see how many say “HELL YES” to that option, WITHOUT EVEN THINKING of the consequences of it (LIKE the fact no one can then stop any foreign nation just waltzing in and taking us over, or the cartels ruling us, like they do mexico etc)…
Yet if we provide out own security, we get arrested and charged. The Dems/left are trying to create anarchy to crack down federally with Nazi centrally controlled cops and create a communist state. They hate local control of policing.
It’s called STATES RIGHTS (something the dimocraps do not recognize)!!
These days, they just don’t recognize rights PERIOD (For conservatives).
The fools that make up “The Squad” are screeching, racist, America-hating Nazi scum.
They also certainly are the ‘face’ of the new democrat party.
AND the fact their ‘fellow dems’ KEEP FAILING TO censure them, shows they AGREE WITH what the squad are doing.
“The Goonies” mouth breathers must not have noticed that it was the “police” who were busy defending them during the mayhem at the Capitol on Jan. 6. Except for that one who was so busy fearing for her life while she wasn’t even there.
Do these clowns realize the only thing keeping them alive is funded police department.
THat’s why they ARE PAYING out lots for PRIVATE security.
I just wonder, who’s paying it? IS ALL That above money, coming out of their OWN pockets, or is it being paid for by CONGRESSIONAL money? IE OUR TAX FUNDS.
It always has been what’s good for the politicians isn’t the same for the real citizens, but now the hypocrisy has escalated even more…
That’s because, for years they’ve been kept proven, NO ONE WILL EVER hold them accountable FOR their sheer hypocrisy.. ERGO WHY NOT go overboard with it.
So, Dems, is all of this gun control you so loudly advocate—is it a manufactured crisis?
This is to be expected. One might ask why the Democrats have instructed their FBI, their DOJ, and their States Attorneys General subjects to ignore and protect Antifa, BLM, and other leftist death squads in training.
The best data model I’ve heard is that they plan on defunding the police and replacing them with “community law enforcement”, AKA Antifa and BLM. These past nine months have been a training period for them in urban combat and control. It is hard to predict when they will create a pretext to implement the transition.
The Republicans will, of course, do nothing, but some conservatives will object to being gunned down or otherwise oppressed. A state of anarchy is not out of the question, and I’m sure the Left is prepared for this.
MORE and more, we need a mass Secession.. Central conservative states, secede from the union… SINCE WE ARE NO LONGER UNITED>
We need more POLICE officers instead of fewer,but who would even want that job with all of the anti POLICE idiots out there.We AMERICANS will eventully have to defend ourselves from the scum that are trying to ruin AMERICA.
I forgot what day it was last month, but i do remember TWO local news channels saying that several cities in ohio, are STRUGGLING to fill up new vacancies in their police forces..
GEE I WONDER WHY!
Let me get this right – defund the police. Then, take away our right to defend ourselves with handguns, shotguns and rifles. What could possibly go wrong with that scenario? Ask the survivors of Nazi Germany, the United Soviet Socialist Republic and any other third world country.
THOSE who fail to even acknowledge history will be doomed to repeat it… MAYBE THAT IS THEIR end goal!