CHICAGO (WLS) -- "Defunding police" is a new catchphrase that has gained steam across the country, including in Chicago, in the wake of the wave of peaceful protests over the death of George Floyd.

A Michigan Democrat seeking his party’s nomination for the U.S. Senate scrubbed his past support for defunding the police from his X account, CNN’s Andrew Kaczynski and Em Steck found. “Most major US ...