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Key Democrats spurn push to defund police amid Trump attacks

by Associated Press
| June 8, 2020 9:27 PM

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump and his allies have seized on calls to “defund the police” as a dangerous example of Democratic overreach as the Republican president fights for momentum amid crises that threaten his reelection.

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