‘I’m not asking if you remember. What is your position today? How’s that?’
By Joe Kovacs
A Democrat state representative in Tennessee running for U.S. Congress is refusing to denounce her previous calls to defund the police and even burn down police stations.
Aftyn Behn was interviewed on MS NOW, formerly MSNBC, by anchor Catherine Rampell, who confronted Behn with her previous anti-police messages, including one tweet from 2020 in which Behn stated: “Good morning, especially to the 54% of Americans that believe burning down a police station is justified.”
Rampell asked: “Do you still stand by those comments, and if not, is there anything you want to clarify?”
“Um, I’m not going to engage in, in, in, uh cable-news talking points,” a flustered Behn replied.