Positions On defunding the Police

View In: Positions On defunding the PoliceFor the past four months we have stopped what we were doing. We have taken drastic, life altering, paradigm shifting changes in order to deal with a global pandemic. The same energy is needed now in dealing with a 400 year old pandemic called white supremacy. It's the brutal treatment by white enslavers on ships sailing across the Atlantic, and the bombing of dark skinned peoples by a Black president with drones flying high in the sky. It's 17 year old Antwon Rose, Jr, killed by a white police officer in Pittsburgh and a black neighborhood in Philadelphia bombed by a Black mayor. White supremacy is a world-wide disease characterized by the dehumanization and devaluation of Black life.

View In: Positions On defunding the PoliceSen. Bernie Sanders isn’t joining the “defund the police” movement in the wake of George Floyd’s death. In a new interview with The New Yorker, Sanders (I-Vt.) was questione…

View In: Positions On defunding the PolicePresident Trump and his allies on Monday lashed out at activists and some Democrats for their support of the “defund the police” movement, seeking to draw a contrast with the administration's embrace of law enforcement amid nationwi

View In: Positions On defunding the PoliceJoe Biden's campaign said the former vice president does not support defunding police in the wake of protests after George Floyd's death.

View In: Positions On defunding the Police AOC: Defund the police means redistribute funds to social programs that 'prevent crime and social discord in the first place.

View In: Positions On defunding the PoliceHowie Hawkins Blasts Democrats on Defund the Police