In John Oliver’s view, it’s time for serious police reform. On Sunday’s “Last Week Tonight”, the host addressed the death of George Floyd and the Black Lives Matter protests, which have taken place around the world.
Then, on Monday, Oliver joined Jimmy Fallon on “The Tonight Show” to talk more about the idea of defunding the police. He explained that he first learned about the concept through Wyatt Cenac’s show “Problem Areas”. “That was the first time I started realizing what defunding the police actually meant,” Oliver recalled. “It wasn’t a punitive thing to do.
It was reallocating resources—and that would look different wherever you lived.” He added, “It was about serving whatever community the police were in better and to trying to