Terrell: Missouri Rep. Bush using private security, calling for defunding cops is 'gaslighting Black people'

Civil rights attorney Leo Terrell ripped Rep. Cori Bush, D-Mo., for demanding the defunding of law enforcement while explaining why it is important that she remain under the guard of private security – noting that most people in her somewhat violent St. Louis district cannot afford for themselves.

"If I end up spending $200,000, if I spent $10 more on it, you know what, I get to be here to do the work. So suck it up – and defunding the police has to happen. We need to defund the police and put that money into social safety nets because we are trying to save lives," Bush said in a CBS News interview. Terrell told "Hannity" on Thursday that Bush is absurd and making a dubious argument: "She talks about flaunting $70-, $80,000 on her private security but what about the Black people in Chicago, L.A., Washington, D.C., they don’t have $100,000, they are just trying to put food on the table. She’s not helping Black people, she is gaslighting black people," he said of the freshman "Squad" member.