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[Celerity]

1. I agree with much of what he said.

“You know, what’s interesting about that comment is I go as far as defining what I mean by that. Do you disagree with investing in libraries and public services and social services? You fixate on the word ‘defund,’ but what I’m talking about is war materiel that we made too much of during the war in Iraq,” El-Sayed said. “And then because we had too much of it, we had to find somewhere to sell it. So we sold it to a whole bunch of local police departments.”

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“I think the way that we have thought about law enforcement is we answer every social problem with somebody with a gun, and you talk to folks in law enforcement with whom I’ve worked very closely, they’ll tell you they don’t want to go on those runs where they know that somebody is in mental crisis,” El-Sayed added. “So maybe instead of investing in war materiel for police, we invest in a safe retirement for them. And then, instead of sending a guy with a gun, we send a trained mental health professional.”