San Francisco “Defund the Police” activist Darcie Bell is a private citizen who expressed an opinion, and then later on, had a real life, traumatic experience that showed that the real world was a lot different than her original opinion
By Daniel Alman (aka Dan from Squirrel Hill)
December 11, 2024
The New York Post, the Daily Mail, and many other websites have been reporting on a “Defund the Police” activist named Darcie Bell, who lives in San Francisco, and who recently complained that the police weren’t doing enough to help her after some evil scumbag stole her U-Haul.
From Bell’s original tweets:
On October 4, 2024, Jerque Cousteau@neo_antiquarian tweeted:
“Defunding the police is good actually. We pay them a whole lot to do less”
https://x.com/neo_antiquarian/status/1842302278272958917
https://x.com/neo_antiquarian/status/1842302278272958917
On December 7, 2024, Jerque Cousteau@neo_antiquarian tweeted:
“Hey guys. If you see a 26 foot uhaul truck with the Arizona plate AL50003- would you let me know because it had like everything I own on it.”
“It was stolen near Noe and Market and fun fact: @uhaul doesn’t put gps on their trucks and thieves apparently know this.”
https://x.com/neo_antiquarian/status/1865413835852861512
https://x.com/neo_antiquarian/status/1865413835852861512
Here’s my take on this:
I can totally relate to Darcie Bell changing her mind after going through this kind of experience. Yes, she is a hypocrite. But so is everyone, including me.
If Bell was an elected official who had enacted policies to defund the police, and then later had hypocritically had her own private security personnel, I’d be a lot tougher on her. And in fact, I have pointed out the hypocrisy of many “Defund the Police” elected officials, which you can read about here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, and here.
But Darcie Bell is not an elected official. She is a private citizen who expressed an opinion, and then later on, had a real life, traumatic experience that showed that the real world was a lot different than her original opinion.
And that’s OK.
It’s a learning experience.
A person has an opinion, then they get new information or a new experience that contradicts that opinion, and so they change their mind. That’s a learning experience. We all go through things like that. It’s part of being human.
I sincerely hope that Darcie Bell is able to get her possessions back.
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