Ana Kasparian

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Well, I mean, it started with...

it started with like personal experiences and it often does, right?

Like often your policy preferences will slap you in the face and then you're like, oh,

I don't like that, you know?

Right, no, I get it.

You know, because sometimes there are unintended consequences.

I'll give you a specific example.

So I was very much supportive of the defund the police movement in 2020.

And it was because, you know, you see this video of a man like dying on camera with a police officer refusing to like, you know, ease up on him.

And it really made me angry.

I felt that it was, whatever you think about George Floyd, I don't care, right?

What was happening in that moment, in that video, was so disgusting to me and so unjust.

And so I was like, no, I totally bought the narrative that it's not actually about abolishing police.

It's about taking some of that funding and investing in...

Social services or in social workers.

So social workers respond to certain calls instead of the police.

That actually has ended up being pretty disastrous in California, in Los Angeles in particular, because I've seen it firsthand.

there.

I'm from there.

My best friend since childhood, she's a social worker herself.

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