Watch: Sen. Cory Booker Delivers Passionate Speech Against ‘Defund the Police’ Movement

Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) delivered a passionate speech against the “defund the police” movement.

On Tuesday night, Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.) called on his colleagues to support an amendment he introduced, saying opposing it “is a vote in support of defunding the police and against the men and women in blue.”

Following Tuberville’s remarks, Booker came out with passion in his speech, saying, “Madam President! I am so excited! This is perhaps the highlight of this long and painful and torturous night. This is a gift. If it wasn’t complete abdication of Senate procedures and esteem, I would walk over there and hug my colleague from Alabama.”

He continued, “I will tell you right now, thank God, because there are some people who’ve said that there are members of this deliberative body that want to defund the police, to my horror. And now, this senator has given us the gift of finally, once and for all we can put to bed this scurrilous accusation that somebody in this great esteemed body would want to defund the police.”

The Democratic senator called on his colleagues to “sashay down there and vote for this amendment”:

“So let’s all us – a hundred people – not walk, but sashay down there and vote for this amendment and put to rest the lies that I am sure I will see no political ads attacking anybody here over defund the police. And I would ask unanimous consent to add something else to this obvious bill. Can we add also that every senator here wants to fund the police, believes in God, country, and apple pie?”

The Senate unanimously passed the amendment 99-0