Fact-check: “Bernie Sanders supported defund police movements when those movements had some strength after George Floyd”
Verdict: False (90% confidence)
The documented record — across Sanders's own Senate website, a June 9, 2020 New Yorker interview, Axios reporting, Fox News, and The Hill — shows Sanders consistently rejected the 'defund the police' framing from the very start of the post-Floyd moment and throughout 2020-2021. He said explicitly on June 9, 2020, 'Do I think we should not have police departments in America? No, I don't,' and by November 2020 was saying 'nobody I know who's running for office talks about defunding the police.' H…
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