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   Former president Barack Obama has a new top staffer at his   
   foundation—a far-left activist who was ousted from the   
   Minneapolis City Council for supporting an initiative to defund   
   police.   
      
   On Monday, former Minneapolis council member Phillipe Cunningham   
   thanked Obama after starting a "new role at the Obama Foundation   
   as the deputy director – U.S. lead of global leadership   
   programs." The move comes just months after voters ousted   
   Cunningham, who backed a failed measure to defund city police,   
   from the Minneapolis City Council in November. Cunningham in   
   June 2020 also spoke at a defund-the-police rally, where the   
   activist and nine other council members pledged to "end policing   
   as we know it." Cunningham's opponent, LaTrisha Vetaw, said that   
   pledge made her feel "silenced" and called public safety "the   
   only issue" in the race.   
      
   Obama's decision to ignore voters in deep-blue Minneapolis and   
   hire Cunningham for a top position contradicts the former   
   president's rhetoric on the defund-the-police movement. Obama in   
   November 2020 said he would not defund police and criticized   
   activists who use the phrase. But Obama appeared alongside   
   Cunningham at a virtual town hall when the activist was openly   
   calling to defund police—during that June 2020 event, Cunningham   
   stressed the need to "completely transform our public safety   
   system."   
      
   President Joe Biden, Obama's vice president, claimed last year   
   that those who say Democrats want to defund police are "lying."   
      
   As part of the Obama Foundation, Cunningham will head the U.S.   
   branch of the group's global leadership programs, which aims to   
   provide "emerging leaders" with "values-based leadership   
   development frameworks to help build their skills and scale   
   their work across public, private, and nonprofit sectors." It's   
   unclear how Cunningham's values align with the program—the Obama   
   Foundation did not return a request for comment on the hire and   
   whether the group agrees with Cunningham's position on defunding   
   police.   
      
   Republican National Committee spokesman Nathan Brand said   
   Obama's new hire shows "there is no daylight between the looney   
   left and the Democratic Party establishment."   
      
   "With radical defund-the-police leaders like this in charge, it   
   is no wonder Democrats are alienating more and more Americans   
   and are set to lose in November," Brand told the Washington Free   
   Beacon. "From that perspective, Dems couldn't have picked a   
   better person to lead these efforts."   
      
   Cunningham, a biological woman who transitioned as a college   
   junior, became the first transgender man of color to be elected   
   to public office in the United States in 2017. Roughly three   
   years later, following George Floyd's death in the summer of   
   2020, the then-councilmember stood behind a giant "DEFUND   
   POLICE" sign at a Minneapolis rally and argued that the city's   
   residents could "keep our own community safe" without police.   
   Cunningham also praised those who "threw the first bricks at   
   police officers" during the Stonewall Riots in New York City.   
      
   One year later, as the defund police movement lost popularity,   
   Cunningham did not back down. In 2021, Cunningham backed an   
   unprecedented amendment to dismantle the city's police   
   department. The measure, which Minneapolis voters rejected by   
   double digits, would have replaced the city's police department   
   with a "Department of Public Safety" and called to abolish the   
   city's minimum funding requirements for police.   
      
   Cunningham's decision to back that amendment came as Minneapolis   
   experienced a surge in violence. In the last week of 2021, the   
   city notched its 96th homicide, just one murder shy of its   
   record level seen in 1995. That trend has continued into this   
   year—in late April, Minneapolis had 9 murders in 10 days,   
   putting the city on track to surpass its 1995 numbers.   
      
   Obama has worked with far-left activists beyond Cunningham.   
   Defund-the-police organizer and MSNBC contributor Brittany   
      
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