{
  "id": 760088,
  "title": "AOC and Mamdani wanted to defund the police. Their backtracking puts organizers at risk",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/13/aoc-and-mamdani-wanted-to-defund-the-police-their-backtracking-puts",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-08-13T11:00:57.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "The Guardian US",
    "slug": "the-guardian-us",
    "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/aug/13/aoc-mamdani-defund-police-prisons"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Progressive and democratic socialist politicians are recanting pandemic-era statements on police and prison abolition The north may not remember, but 9 August this year marked the 12th anniversary of the police killing of Michael Brown Jr in Ferguson, Missouri. That day, the US representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez reassured an ABC news anchor that she, like other progressive politicians and…",
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}