Black Lives Matter ‘Youth Vanguard’ Organizes Classmates to ‘Abolish’ Police in Los Angeles Public Schools

Members of the Black Lives Matter Youth Vanguard are organizing their classmates to dismantle the police department that protects more than 640,000 students enrolled in the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) — the nation’s second-largest public education system.

“What (we) are working on right now is abolishing policing in our schools,” explained 14-year-old Thandiwe Abdullah on “Move the Crowd,” an internet talk show hosted by her mother, Dr. Melina Abdullah, a professor at California State University who also leads the Los Angeles chapter of Black Lives Matter.