Barr: Defund the Police Movement Will ‘Destroy’ Inner Cities

Attorney General William Barr appears before the House Oversight Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington on July 28, 2020. Matt McClain-Pool/Getty Images

Attorney General William Barr said that the “defund the police” movement that was sparked in the midst of Black Lives Matter protests will devastate inner-city communities.

“These communities are not going to have the safety,” Barr told Fox News on Thursday evening. “Now, a lot of the liberals will buy themselves out of that. They’ll go to resort towns and so forth, and they’ll escape the consequences of it. But the people in the inner cities won’t. Their lives will be destroyed.”