Melina Abdullah, the running mate of independent presidential candidate Cornel West, defended her previous comments comparing police to the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) during an appearance on CNN, Thursday.
In an interview with West and Abdullah on CNN NewsNight, host Abby Phillip told Abdullah, “You have tweeted in the past about supporting Defund the Police, which is something that I think perhaps some people in the Black Lives Matter movement support, but also this tweet from back in 2015: ‘The KKK, the police, and government officials are one in the same.’”
Phillip then asked, “I wonder, do you stand by that comment?”
“Absolutely,” replied Abdullah:
I want us to understand the history of policing in this country, and so Twitter doesn’t allow you to give a whole history of policing in this country, but in a few sentences, we can just confirm that there is no historian that I’ve ever come in contact with who disputes the fact that …