Dems won’t deliver on police reform — much less defunding

Justin Ward
4 min readJun 22, 2021
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When Joe Biden signed a bill declaring Juneteenth a federal holiday last week, it was greeted with much fanfare. The president invited to the ceremony Opal Lee, the 94-year-old civil rights activist who has long campaigned for federal recognition. Vice President Kamala Harris waxed poetic about the law’s significance in a televised speech. In the media, it was hailed as a historic event. One…

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Justin Ward

Journalist and activist. Founder and co-chair of DivestSPD. Bylines at SPLC, The Baffler, GEN, USA Today. Follow on Twitter: @justwardoctrine, @DivestSPD