Earlier this year, Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp signed HB 286 into law.
The new legislation bans Georgia counties from cutting police funding by more than 5 percent each year and prevents cutting budgets by more than 25 percent over five years.
In Thursday’s edition of “Closer Look,” Dr. Amara Enyia, a public policy expert and the policy and research coordinator for the Movement for Black Lives, talked with show host Rose Scott about why she feels clarifying the messaging around defunding the police is necessary to combat Republican claims that it’s directly linked to COVID crime.
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