A socialist mayoral candidate in Buffalo, New York, said that sending police officers on emergency calls just "re-victimizes" people and wants to send social workers instead.
India B. Walton pulled off a surprising and unexpected victory in the Democratic primary for the mayor's office in June. Walton has said that she wants to cut the funding to the police force and send social workers to respond to some emergency calls instead.
On Wednesday Walton reiterated that policy when responding to an incident where a 3-year-old was shot.
"It is my concern that that community has experienced a very deeply hurtful trauma, and our response was to re-victimize them with another traumatic event, rather than sending in social workers and mental health counselors," said Walton.
Walton says she plans to reallocate $7.5 million of police funds to social programs.
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