Ilhan Omar was asked a simple question by Jake Tapper after she called for the police to be disbanded and defunded. The problem was she could not answer the question.
During the program, “State of the Nation” Jake Tapper asked Omar how her constituents would be protected after she eliminates the police. Omar represents part of Minneapolis but could not seem to know what to replace the police with.
I don’t understand why she is worried about the local police since the ones looking to lock her up would be federal officials. You know, for marrying her brother or entering the country using a fake name or even using campaign funds to enrich her boyfriend.
Tapper asked:
“You have talked about dismantling — the need to dismantle the Minneapolis Police Department. What takes its place, and if you could just decree what takes its place? Who investigates crimes? Who arrests criminals? What happens?”
Omar answered incoherently:
“So, Minneapolis unanimously just voted on a resolution that will engage the community on a one-year process of what happens as we go through the process of dismantling the department and starting anew. A new way forward can’t be put in place if we have a department that is having a crisis of credibility if we have a department that’s led by a chief who’s suited for racism if we have a department that hasn’t solved homicide.”
Tapper, clearly through with Omar’s history lesson, responded, “You’re — just to be clear, though, you’re not saying that there’s nothing that takes its place. You’re not saying that if a woman is raped …”
Omar interrupted, insisting that the greater conversation is “going wrong.”
“I think that’s really where the conversation is going wrong because no one is saying that the community is not going to be kept safe,” she said. “No one is saying crimes will not be investigated. No one is saying that we are not going to have a proper response when community members are in danger.”
She insisted, “We can’t go about creating a different process with the same infrastructure in place.”
