Boston Rev. Eugene Rivers III, the director at the Seymour Institute for Black Church and Policy Studies, slammed "Squad" member Rep. Cori Bush’s "absurd and ridiculous" call to defund the police, especially as records show she spent tens of thousands of dollars on private security.
"The call for the defunding police is not wrong, it's absurd and ridiculous," Rivers, a community activist who served as an advisor for the Bush and Clinton administrations to work on faith-based initiatives, argued on "Fox & Friends" on Friday. "It is absolutely an intellectual and ideological crime against Black people to talk about defunding the police."
"Ms. Bush should be arrested for political and ideological malpractice," he added. "It is absurd."
Bush, D-Mo., spent nearly $70,000 on private security over the past three months as she advocated for defunding the police, campaign filings show.