Black Lives Matter’s Most Prominent Chapter Claims Several 2020 Victories That Shook Up The Nation’s Largest Criminal Justice Jurisdiction

In her first tweet of the new year, Dr. Melina Abdullah, the lead organizer of Black Lives Matter’s Los Angeles chapter, recapped the activist group’s most significant accomplishments of 2020.

She says BLM-LA deserves credit for the defunding of local law enforcement agencies, convincing voters to approve two countywide ballot measures to reduce the county jail population, and replacing the two-term district attorney with a more reform-minded alternative.