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Angela Lang: “Defunding the police is now a mainstream conversation.”

Featuring: Angela Lang, Vice President | ACLU of Wisconsin

Deborah Harris, Action Now and Angela Lang, Black Leaders Organizing Communities.

Published August 11, 2020 | Video Starts at 21:32

And I was like, no one's gonna buy into our ideas. We were having these conversations, we were in these rooms years ago about Defunding the police is now a mainstream conversation. And now this is a beautiful opportunity for us to vision without borders and boxes and conditions of what we're normally used to, of how we're imagining safety. (21:32–21:39)

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Asserts that the idea of defunding the police has become mainstream.

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