Actress Alyssa Milano, who recently became a top supporter of the &#8220;Defund the Police&#8221; movement, which seeks to disband police departments and redirect funds to &#8220;community organizations,&#8221; was quick to call the cops, the <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8756911/Defund-police-activist-Alyssa-Milano-sparks-massive-police-presence-calling-911.html">Daily Mail reports</a>, over reports of an &#8220;armed gunman&#8221; in her neighborhood.
Fortunately, no one was hurt; the &#8220;armed gunman&#8221; turned out to be a teenager targeting squirrels with an air gun, according to the outlet. He turned himself in to authorities after realizing he had caused the problem.
Milano, though, who recently tweeted to &#8220;Defund the Police&#8221; and asked her social media followers to sign on to a petition that &#8220;demands a 90 percent reduction in police funding&#8221; in the Los Angeles city budget, triggered what neighbors told the Mail was a &#8220;massive&#8221; police presence after calling 911 to report gunshots on Sunday.
&#8220;Alyssa and her talent agent husband &#8230; had dialed 911 when they heard what they believed to be gunshots on their 1.39-acre property,&#8221; the Daily Mail reported (Milano now challenges that version of events). &#8220;They allegedly told the emergency hotline the sound &#8216;scared their dogs&#8217; and made them feel like the gunman was nearby. A description was given of a suspect to the officers who was &#8216;male, 40-years old, with long rifle.'&#8221;
The couple was reportedly concerned that the alleged gunman could be a stalker; Milano has filed restraining orders against an older man who has broken into her home twice.
The call triggered &#8220;a response that included seven Ventura County Sheriffs&#8217; vehicles, one K-9 unit, a police helicopter, and one Los Angeles Fire Department team that sat down the street on standby.&#8221;
Neighbors reportedly warned each other to &#8220;stay inside and stay safe&#8221; as police combed the neighborhood.
Neighbors, though, were also quick to point out that Milano, who has petitioned to severely cripple law enforcement, did not seek out alternative ways of resolving the situation.
&#8220;She can tweet those things because at the end of the day she lives behind gates in a gated community. She knows the police will come to save her. But what about all those people who don&#8217;t have that luxury and live in unsafe neighborhoods? She obviously doesn&#8217;t care,&#8221; a neighbor told the mail referencing Milano&#8217;s tweets from over the summer. &#8220;She uses her platform in hypocritical ways. Why not send your husband into the yard to find out what is actually going on before you call the police? I would guesstimate the response today from law enforcement cost taxpayers thousands of dollars.&#8221;
&#8220;In July, the left-leaning activist Alyssa tweeted out to her 3.7 million followers a link, urging them to sign the &#8216;People&#8217;s Budget L.A.&#8217; that demands a 90 percent reduction in police funding,&#8221; the Daily Mail noted. &#8220;[Milano also] tweeted: &#8216;What is the Los Angeles Police Protective League? @LAPPL is a narrow special interest group that lobbies our politicians to protect the LAPD budget, pension + officers. But electeds (sic) need to #ProtectPeopleNot Police. Sign the #People&#8217;sBudgetLA petition.'&#8221;
UPDATE: Milano has issued a statement claiming a neighbor alerted them to a man &#8220;dressed in black&#8221; holding a rifle. It is not clear, based on her statement, who called the police though her neighbors claim to the Daily Mail that she was the one who alerted authorities. Milano says that is &#8220;a lie,&#8221; and thanked the Ventura police department for responding to the call regardless.
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Milano later says that she believes &#8220;equally trained non-police professionals&#8221; should be available to respond to &#8220;addiction and mental health crises and non-violent events&#8221; so that police can focus on incidents like the one that occurred in her neighborhood.
This is a departure from her earlier statements which <a href="https://twitter.com/Alyssa_Milano/status/1271213924533145600?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1271213924533145600%7Ctwgr%5Eshare_3&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fpjmedia.com%2Fnews-and-politics%2Fjim-treacher%2F2020%2F09%2F22%2Falyssa-defundthepolice-milano-calls-the-cops-n954346">include a call to &#8220;defund the police&#8221; altogether and for &#8220;abolition</a>,&#8221; presumably meaning the full abolition of law enforcement, and her support for a 90% financial reduction in the Los Angeles Police Department&#8217;s annual budget, which would severely hinder the department from responding to typical 911 calls &#8212; a situation that cities like Minneapolis, Minnesota, are currently struggling with.
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Florida Governor Ron DeSantis announced new legislation Monday that would create additional felonies to punish protesters who turn violent and would create severe penalties for cities that elect to defund or disband their police departments.
<a href="https://wsvn.com/news/local/desantis-proposes-legislation-cracking-down-on-violent-protests-penalizing-cities-for-defunding-police/">Local Miami news reports</a> that &#8220;violent protesters and looters would face new felonies&#8221; under the legislation, particularly if they damage property as part of their demonstrations, engage in &#8220;disorderly&#8221; conduct,&#8221; or assault a law enforcement officer.
If caught and convicted, violent protesters could lose their access to state-based welfare programs, DeSantis said.
&#8220;DeSantis told reporters during a news briefing at the Polk County Sheriff&#8217;s Office the bill would charge protesters with felonies for damaging property and inflicting injuries, as well as sentence them to mandatory jail time for hitting a law enforcement officer,&#8221; <a href="https://www.politico.com/states/florida/story/2020/09/21/desantis-calls-for-ton-of-bricks-penalties-on-protesters-who-commit-illegal-acts-9424199">POLITICO noted Monday</a>. &#8220;The bill, which state lawmakers will consider during next year&#8217;s legislative session, would also bar protesters who commit crimes from receiving state benefits or working for the state.&#8221;
Florida, unlike Washington, Oregon, New York, and Illinois, has not seen overtly violent anti-police and anti-racism protests, though individual protests in places like Tallahassee and Miami have occasionally devolved into violence, <a href="https://www.wfla.com/news/florida/reports-gun-pulled-on-black-lives-matter-protesters-in-tallahassee/">per local media</a>. In Miami, Black Lives Matter protesters have pressed for the police to stop using non-lethal methods to control protests that get out of hand.
DeSantis says, though, that the new legislation is designed to prevent the type of violence, anarchy, and destruction Americans have witnessed in places like Portland, Oregon, where unrest has raged unabated for more than 100 days. The legislation also covers activities like harassing people dining at restaurants and tearing down monuments.
&#8220;We&#8217;re not going to go down the road that other places have gone,&#8221; DeSantis said in his press conference. &#8220;If you do it, and you know that a ton of bricks will rain down on you, then I think people will think twice about engaging in this type of conduct.&#8221;
To reinforce the idea that the new laws were designed to provide law enforcement with more tools to control destructive demonstrations, the package includes proposed penalities for municipalities who elect to &#8220;defund the police&#8221; or disband their local police departments.
&#8220;The proposed package would also strip municipalities of state money if they defund law enforcement,&#8221; local Miami news reported.
Florida is the first state to take an active role in preventing destructive rioting and looting. In other areas of the country, the federal government has found it necessary to step in after local and state officials failed to exercise control.
As The <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-ag-barr-to-officially-designate-3-u-s-cities-as-anarchist-jurisdictions-report-says">Daily Wire reported early</a> Monday, Attorney General William Barr declared Portland, Seattle, and New York City &#8220;anarchist jurisdictions&#8221; &#8212; a status that allows the federal government to intervene in some areas of crime control.
“When state and local leaders impede their own law-enforcement officers and agencies from doing their jobs, it endangers innocent citizens who deserve to be protected, including those who are trying to peacefully assemble and protest,” Barr said in a statement. “We cannot allow federal tax dollars to be wasted when the safety of the citizenry hangs in the balance. It is my hope that the cities identified by the Department of Justice today will reverse course and become serious about performing the basic function of government and start protecting their own citizens.”
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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis Proposes New Felony Charges For ‘Violent Protesters,’ Harsh Penalties For Cities That Defund Police

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One Minneapolis police inspector is warning residents of a district, hit hard by a city-wide spike in violence, that police reinforcements aren&#8217;t available to help handle increasing crime and they &#8220;aren&#8217;t coming any time soon.&#8221;
<a href="https://minnesota.cbslocal.com/2020/09/17/minneapolis-police-3rd-precinct-head-to-business-owner-theres-no-long-term-plan-to-increase-safety/">CBS Minneapolis reports</a> that the head of the Minneapolis Police Department’s 3rd Precinct, Inspector Sean McGinty, warned business owners in a note that he simply can&#8217;t help them address or repel break-ins, burglaries, and other incidents that have plagued the neighborhood all summer. Minneapolis&#8217;s 3rd Precinct is where <a href="https://minnesota.cbslocal.com/2020/08/25/4-men-indicted-for-fire-that-totaled-minneapolis-police-3rd-precinct/">rioters &#8220;occupied&#8221; and then burned</a> the local precinct building in protest over the death of George Floyd.
The business owners complained to McGinty that they were scared to go to work and can&#8217;t find employees brave enough to fill vacant positions. They demanded McGinty give them a &#8220;long-term plan&#8221; to address the problem.
In response, McGinty admitted that there is no &#8220;long-term plan.&#8221;
&#8220;As far as a long-term plan I don’t have one. I have lost 30% of my street officers since the end of May. Budget cuts from COVID-19 and an additional 1.5 million from the council in August we have let go 17 CSO’s and cancelled a recruit class of 29,&#8221; he wrote.
&#8220;A potential Cadet class slated for January of 2021 was also eliminated. It takes about a year to get a police Officer onto the streets with hiring, backgrounds and field training so reinforcements aren’t coming anytime soon,&#8221; McGinty continued. &#8220;We are doing everything we can with what we have. I hate to see great businesses like yours and the rest of your corridor being victimized and feeling unsafe. Please let me know if you have any more questions.&#8221;
The Minneapolis Police Department&#8217;s union president confirmed the situation to CBS, pinning the blame for poor officer retention, recruitment, and morale on Minneapolis City Council efforts aimed at defunding and disbanding the MPD.
&#8220;The Inspector gave an excellent summary. I think the only plan city leadership has is to further decimate its police department. Businesses and people will continue to flee the city. And rightfully so,&#8221; he said.
Minneapolis Police, though, say they have enough patrol officers to handle the situation.
“In these very challenging times of COVID, budget cuts and retirements, the MPD continues to evaluate and reallocate the resources that we currently have to best serve the City of Minneapolis, focusing on the core responsibilities of a police department; responding to 911 calls and investigations,&#8221; they told CBS.
McGinty&#8217;s admission comes just days after the city council, which has been pressing to &#8220;defund the police&#8221; since late May, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/minneapolis-city-council-panics-over-surge-in-violence-after-demonizing-police-where-are-the-police">confronted the city&#8217;s police chief</a> and demanded to know why crime is on the upswing in Minneapolis. It also comes just days after a plan to reopen a police office in the affected 3rd Precinct failed &#8212; a development anti-police activists hailed as a &#8220;victory&#8221; in the fight to &#8220;abolish&#8221; law enforcement, <a href="https://minnesota.cbslocal.com/2020/09/16/minneapolis-temporary-3rd-precinct-plan-dropped-after-negotiations-with-property-owners-reach-impasse/">per CBS Minneapolis</a>.
“I think we’re celebrating this as a victory, and making it very clear to our elected leaders that you need to move forward with the process that you promised in June,”  the chair of the Seward Abolish Police Group told the network following the decision. “We do not want to see any movement on re-opening this precinct.”
“Why go with MPD as it is without any reconciliation or restorative process? Let’s move away from that and use this as an opportunity to build that new model public and community safety,” she added.
<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/minneapolis-residents-say-theyre-living-in-a-war-zone-plead-with-city-council-to-address-them-personally">Related: Minneapolis Residents Say They’re Living ‘In A War Zone’ Plead With City Council To Address Them Personally</a>
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Minneapolis residents are pleading with the city council to tour their neighborhoods in person after a spike in violent crime that has left some feeling as though they live in a &#8220;war zone.&#8221;
<a href="https://minnesota.cbslocal.com/2020/09/15/you-feel-like-youre-in-a-war-zone-mpls-residents-call-for-change-in-their-neighborhoods/?taid=5f617fb907638d00018d0fc9&amp;utm_campaign=trueAnthem%3A+Trending+Content&amp;utm_medium=trueAnthem&amp;utm_source=twitter">Local Minneapolis news outlet, WCCO</a>, went into Minneapolis neighborhoods directly affected by the recent uptick in gun violence and found that locals feel abandoned by the city council, which made defunding the Minneapolis Police Department a priority of its last legislative session.
“Honestly I really haven’t been sleeping right now I mean really I can’t. I hear every little thing that is going on police sirens like the helicopters the gun shooting everything,&#8221; resident Lisa Cruz told the network.
“You’re sleeping and all of a sudden you feel like you are in a war zone. I have four children and I’ll sleep with them all in my room because I am scared and I’m terrified something is going to happen to them,” she continued.
Cruz suggested that the Minneapolis City Council has all but ignored the problem and that none of the council members &#8212; including those who are pressing for Minneapolis to scrap its current law enforcement plan and reroute funds dedicated to crime control to more &#8220;community oriented&#8221; projects.
&#8220;Nobody sees what we’ve living nobody is feeling what we’re feeling because they’re not here,&#8221; Cruz told WCCO.
&#8220;Help us, come and see what’s going on and we’re really not getting any responses from the Mayor of city council we feel kind of alone right now,” she begged. “Come here, meet with us, face us, stay here for a weekend for the love of God just come here and say something to us the people that are freaking voting for you and depend on you to take care of us where are you show your face to us do something don’t just sit there and let your city go down to the ruins do something for us.&#8221;
Residents told WCCO that they do appreciate efforts the Minneapolis Police Department has made at addressing the spike in crime and seem to believe the City Council &#8212; which just yesterday demanded the same Minneapolis Police Department answer for the uptick in homicides &#8212; is to blame for the dangerous environment.
The city council, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/minneapolis-city-council-panics-over-surge-in-violence-after-demonizing-police-where-are-the-police">as The Daily Wire reported Tuesday</a>, demanded the police answer for the surge in violence, even as city council members have spent the last several months demonizing law enforcement. City Council president, Lisa Bender, who led the effort to defund the police &#8212; an effort sidelined by the city&#8217;s Charter Commission over concerns the council had no real plan to handle crime once the police had been disbanded &#8212; even went so far as to accuse police officers of being &#8220;defiant,&#8221; and implied that Minneapolis cops were deliberately ignoring violence.
If Minneapolis residents feel less safe this summer than in previous years, they are not alone. According to an op-ed in <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/homicide-stats-show-minneapolis-effect-11600296843">The Wall Street Journal</a>, published Thursday, the &#8220;Minneapolis effect&#8221; as it is now being called, is a pervasive issue nationwide.
&#8220;The antipolice protests that began across the country around May 27 appear to have resulted in a decline in policing directed at gun violence, producing—perhaps unsurprisingly—an increase in shootings,&#8221; the WSJ noted. &#8220;Even as the demonstrations abated, what is commonly called “proactive” policing declined. Police department data show that street and vehicle stops in Minneapolis and Philadelphia dropped sharply in June. In Chicago and New York, arrests declined steeply. And in cities around the country, both law-enforcement and citizen reports suggest a general reluctance by officers to engage in hot-spot and other enforcement efforts that are most effective in deterring gun violence.&#8221;
Minneapolis residents will also get a visit this week from a member of the government, though not a member of their own local legislature. Vice President Mike Pence is scheduled to host a &#8220;listening session&#8221; at a &#8220;Cops for Trump&#8221; event in the city next week.
<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/minneapolis-city-council-panics-over-surge-in-violence-after-demonizing-police-where-are-the-police">RELATED: Minneapolis City Council Panics Over Surge In Violence After Demonizing Police: ‘Where Are The Police?’</a>
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A former police officer in North Carolina&#8217;s Asheville Police Department (APD) both admonished and apologized to the community he served in a heartfelt resignation letter published last week in the local newspaper.
Justin Wilson, who served as a community resource officer for 10 years with APD, explained in an Aug. 21 email sent to neighborhood groups he worked with that he was moving to Colorado to begin a new career because his law enforcement job &#8220;has taken a toll on my personal life,&#8221; the <a href="https://www.citizen-times.com/story/news/local/2020/09/11/asheville-police-resignations-surge-taken-toll-my-personal-life/3459640001/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Asheville Citizen-Times</a> reported.
Wilson also expressed regret for not having offered his community &#8220;more safety and protection&#8221; but maintained that police are being expected to stem the tide of social problems that can only be solved by &#8220;strong communities.&#8221; He further urged Asheville residents to remember that his fellow police officers, who he said &#8220;are good people with good hearts,&#8221; are confronted with real evil that is &#8220;not within our capacity&#8221; to curb entirely.
His full letter reads:
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I wanted to write to a few of you who I have had connections with over the past few years to let you know that I am resigning from APD. I&#8217;m headed out to Colorado to start a new career. Being a cop has been very difficult for me. It has taken a toll on my personal life. I cannot begin to explain the complexities of it to someone who has not been involved in it. I wish I could. I&#8217;m blessed to exit this job with only emotional scars.
I truly wish I could have offered you more safety and protection. My time as a CRO has been a constant balance of defending APD, and acknowledging the short falls of APD. I tried my best to be transparent and honest with you all. I&#8217;ve come to the conclusion that APD is tasked with stopping societal issues, and disorder, but it is not within our capacity. We can only put a bandaid on these issues. Strong communities are the real remedy.
I want to sincerely thank you for your patiences, understanding, and support of APD. Officers require your support to function properly (during both the good and bad times).
After ten years at APD, I can say confidently that APD officers are good people with good hearts. Evil is real. Evil exists in Asheville, officers are surrounded by it, and they do their best with what they have. Please remember that.
-Justin
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According to the Citizen-Times, resignations from APD have surged since June 1, with 31 officers having called it quits in what Police Chief David Zack described as an &#8220;unprecedented&#8221; trend. For a force of 238, such a number, which does not take retirements into account, equates to one in 10 sworn officers throwing in the towel.
Asheville, a very liberal city with a population of about 90,000 in the otherwise mostly conservative western part of North Carolina, has been roiled with turmoil over the summer. In the wake of George Floyd&#8217;s death, APD officers decked out in riot gear engaged in an hours-long standoff with protesters on one of the major thoroughfares leading into the city, <a href="https://www.citizen-times.com/story/news/local/2020/06/01/asheville-police-prepare-second-night-demonstrations/5307251002/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">according to the Citizen-Times</a>.
Asheville also made headlines in July when their city council approved a resolution in favor of &#8220;community reparations&#8221; for its black citizens. As <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/north-carolina-city-votes-to-offer-community-reparations-for-black-citizens" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">The Daily Wire reported</a>, the resolution does not offer direct payments but will instead seek to rectify historical disparities among the city’s black community with investment-based solutions. In a July 30 vote, the city also voted to <a href="https://www.citizen-times.com/story/news/local/2020/07/30/defund-police-asheville-votes-limit-budget-50-cut-sought-activists/5550993002/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">limit the APD&#8217;s budget</a> amid calls from activists demanding an immediate 50% cut to the department&#8217;s funding.
Asheville is the most populous city in North Carolina&#8217;s 11th Congressional District, which has drawn <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/stomp-their-scrawny-pasty-necks-inflammatory-tweets-from-nc-congressional-candidate-resurface" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">national attention</a> for its congressional race between Democrat Moe Davis, a retired Air Force colonel, and Madison Cawthorn, a 25-year-old paraplegic who <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/madison-cawthorn-24-wins-republican-run-off-primary-for-meadows-old-seat" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">beat a Trump-backed candidate</a> during a runoff election and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/leftist-pbs-journalist-slams-young-paralyzed-gop-candidate-standing-at-rnc-to-recite-pledge-of-allegiance-social-media-erupts" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">spoke at the Republican National Convention</a>.
The Davis and Cawthorn campaigns offered differing views to The Daily Wire on Wilson&#8217;s resignation and the larger issues regarding the city&#8217;s hemorrhaging police force. The Davis campaign didn&#8217;t want to speak to Wilson&#8217;s situation specifically because &#8220;he has said it was a personal decision and did not elaborate&#8221; but added that it was &#8220;too soon to know all of the reasons for the recent departures and whether this is temporary or a trend.&#8221;
The Davis campaign continued:
<blockquote>But we can acknowledge that this is a moment of reckoning and transition in our country following the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis, which led to nationwide protests and conflicts with police. Col. Davis has called for reform and advocated for a re-imagining of the role of policing in this country. For example, issues such as drug overdoses are best handled via healthcare, not police.
More than anything, this moment calls for leaders who can work to unite our deeply divided country. That is our best path forward.</blockquote>
A spokesman for the Cawthorn campaign pointed out that he has been &#8220;endorsed by more than a dozen sheriffs and law enforcement groups because he understands that with very few exceptions law enforcement officers are noble, hard-working Americans who risk their lives every day to keep us safe. In fact, no one was more appalled by George Floyd’s killing than law enforcement officers who have dedicated their lives to protecting our basic rights and liberties.&#8221;
Cawthorn&#8217;s campaign went on to urge his opponent to apologize to law enforcement because of &#8220;his barbaric calls for violence,&#8221; referencing <a href="https://www.moetaxes.com/twitter" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">unsurfaced tweets</a> that slammed President Donald Trump and his supporters in violent and vulgar ways. The campaign continued:
<blockquote>Davis’ rationalization of his rhetoric (he believes he can say such things because he has a &#8220;D&#8221; next to his name) is a dangerous appeal to the political tribalism Cawthorn condemned in his convention speech. Davis likes to say that not all Republicans are Nazis, but all Nazis are Republicans. Someone with Davis’ education should know better. Dehumanizing political opponents is Germany circa 1930 and the former Yugoslavia in the 1990s. Davis should unequivocally apologize for not just his rhetoric but the rationalization upon which it is based.</blockquote>
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/north-carolina-city-votes-to-offer-community-reparations-for-black-citizens" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">North Carolina City Votes To Offer ‘Community Reparations’ For Black Citizens</a>
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‘Evil Is Real’: North Carolina Police Officer Pens Heartfelt Resignation Letter To Community Amid ‘Unprecedented’ Exodus From Force

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A former police officer in North Carolina&#039;s Asheville Police Department (APD) both admonished and apologized to the community he served in a heartfelt

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Dallas Mayor Eric Johnson slammed the Dallas City Council for voting to cut $7 million from the city police department&#8217;s budget amid spiking crime rates in the city.
The Dallas City Council voted on Wednesday to cut the money from the police department’s fund dedicated to overtime pay. The cut comprised 25% of the department’s overtime budget. The decision came after Black Lives Matter protesters called on elected officials to defund the police department.
“The city of Dallas is facing a serious uptick in violent crime, and it’s not just a few days or weeks or months in the making. We’re talking about a couple of years now of steadily increasing aggravated assaults, steadily increasing homicide and steadily increasing domestic violence,” Johnson said, according to <a href="https://www.dallasnews.com/news/politics/2020/09/12/dallas-mayor-eric-johnson-rips-council-for-decision-to-cut-police-overtime-budget/">The Dallas Morning News</a>.
“I don’t believe, and neither do the people of Dallas … that now is the right time to be defunding the police, or cutting funding to the police to send a message or anything like that,” he continued.
Dallas is one of many U.S. cities that have been rocked by <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/man-brutally-beaten-on-streets-of-dallas-by-large-group">Black Lives Matter riots</a> in the aftermath of the death of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/medical-examiner-concluded-george-floyd-likely-died-of-fentanyl-overdose-court-docs-reveal">George Floyd</a> in Minneapolis on May 25. Floyd died in police custody after an officer kneeled on his neck for nearly nine minutes. An autopsy of Floyd’s body found a potentially lethal cocktail of fentanyl and methamphetamines in his system.
A significant number of Black Lives Matter activists have launched a movement to “Defund the Police” and redirect money from law enforcement to social programs that target minority and disadvantaged communities.
“I think we need to have a very serious conversation about these topics, and I’ll say this. When I first heard the phrase to defund the police several months ago, I very genuinely and earnestly asked the question what does that mean, and I was actually met with some ridicule and met with some derision and accused of pretending not to know,” Johnson said. “People are all over the place on what it means.”
Dallas City Council member Carolyn King Arnold issued a response to Johnson’s criticism on Saturday, defending the council’s decision and claiming that the council’s action should be viewed as a “reinvestment” in disadvantaged communities.
“You may have heard the City Council voted to defund the Dallas Police Department,” Arnold said, according to <a href="https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/dallas-city-council-member-carolyn-king-arnold-addresses-biennial-budget/2442699/">NBC Dallas</a>. “That’s not true! Twelve of my colleagues and I voted to reprogram $7 million in police overtime pay in order to create programs and outreach efforts that will help reduce neighborhood crime rates.”
“The hope is to be able to tell you more about these programs that represent ‘reinvestment’ into our neighborhoods,” Arnold said. “The City can’t arrest its way out of the poverty and desperation issues that often lead to crime. We can use these dollars to harness the community’s powers in crime prevention.”
Dallas Police Chief <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/we-warned-them-dallas-police-chief-had-nearly-700-protesters-taken-into-custody-for-blocking-highway">Renee Hall</a> <a href="https://www.dallasnews.com/news/crime/2020/09/09/dallas-police-chiefs-resignation-comes-as-law-enforcement-faces-moment-of-disruption/">announced</a> her intention to retire from the force on Wednesday, the same day as the council’s vote to cut the police department’s overtime budget. She intended to leave by Nov. 4 but agreed to remain in the position until the end of the year at a request from the Dallas city manager.
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Dallas Mayor Rips City Council For Passing ‘Defund The Police’-Inspired Budget Cuts

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Dallas Mayor Eric Johnson slammed the Dallas City Council for voting to cut $7 million from the city police department&#039;s budget amid spiking crime rates

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People entering Austin, Texas, from Interstate 35 will see two billboards warning them that the city defunded police.
One billboard says, “Warning! Austin defunded police. Enter at your own risk!&#8221; CBS News <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/austin-texas-defund-police-billboard-i-35/">reported</a>. The board is referring to the Austin city council’s vote last month to cut the police budget.
The second billboard reads, “Limited support next 20 miles,” the outlet reported.
The billboards were put up by the Texas Municipal Police Association, which announced its campaign Wednesday on Facebook:
<blockquote>Today, TMPA released two billboards (pictured below), along Interstate 35, entering Austin, intended to raise public awareness that Austin is a defunded city. This reckless act, a political stunt by the city council pandering to the radical left, will do nothing but endanger the people of Austin.
As the largest police association in Texas, it is our duty and responsibility to stand up for the brave men and woman of the APD, as well as the other law enforcement agencies with jurisdiction within the city limits which will have less of APDs resources to depend on, and to raise public awareness of the dangers of defunding not just Austin, but any city across the U.S.</blockquote>
Texas’ top politicians praised the campaign late last week. Lieutenant Gov. Dan Patrick called attention to the “great new billboards” and included a picture and the hashtag #BackTheBlue.
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Thank you to the Texas Municipal Police Association for these great new billboards that went up in Austin today. <a href="https://twitter.com/austintexasgov?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@austintexasgov</a> ignored public safety and made a dangerous decision to <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/defundpolice?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#defundpolice</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/bigmistake?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#bigmistake</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/backtheblue?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#backtheblue</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/txlege?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#txlege</a> <a href="https://t.co/bGO8X1Hyur">pic.twitter.com/bGO8X1Hyur</a>
— Dan Patrick (@DanPatrick) <a href="https://twitter.com/DanPatrick/status/1303777387063250944?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 9, 2020</a></blockquote>
Gov. Greg Abbott (R-TX) also tweeted about the billboards on Thursday and included the hashtag #TexasBacksTheBlue.
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Billboard on I-35 warns &#8216;Enter at your own risk!&#8217; after Austin votes to defund police.<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/TexasBacksTheBlue?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#TexasBacksTheBlue</a><a href="https://t.co/4RFhUfap10">https://t.co/4RFhUfap10</a>
— Greg Abbott (@GregAbbott_TX) <a href="https://twitter.com/GregAbbott_TX/status/1303796951901777920?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 9, 2020</a></blockquote>
CBS Austin previously <a href="https://cbsaustin.com/news/local/gov-abbott-calls-on-all-candidates-texans-to-pledge-against-defunding-police?src=lnk">reported</a> that Abbott asked all Texans and candidates for political office to sign a pledge against defunding the police.
“I sign this Texas Backs the Blue Pledge to oppose any efforts to defund the police and to show my support for the brave law enforcement officers who risk their lives to protect and serve. Defunding our police departments would invite crime into our communities and put people in danger. That is why I pledge to support any measure that discourages or stops efforts to defund police departments in Texas,” the pledge states. “Our law enforcement officers have our backs every single day, and we need to show them that Texans have their backs. #TexasBacksTheBlue”
Some who support the slogan “Defund the Police” claim it’s not actually about defunding the police, CBS reported, it’s about “a reallocation of some money from law enforcement to other services that could help the community.”
It serves the same purpose, however, as the Austin city council voted to cut $150 million in funding to the APD and redirect most of the money to social services and elsewhere in the government.
Austin Mayor Steve Adler has said he looked to Denver, Colorado, as a model for police reforms. In Denver, mental health professionals are sent to non-violent 911 calls.
As The Daily Wire previously <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/police-in-florida-town-will-no-longer-respond-to-non-violent-911-calls">reported</a>, this same approach has been adopted by St. Petersburg, Florida, and law enforcement experts warned a “catastrophe” was waiting to happen. Law Enforcement Today—a police-centric news outlet—tweeted in response to the St. Petersburg Police Department’s announcement of the change by saying, “Not every 911 call starts violent &#8212; but many of them end that way. This is a catastrophe waiting to happen… and it’s spreading across America.”
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Not every 911 call starts violent &#8211; but many of them end that way. This is a catastrophe waiting to happen&#8230; and it&#8217;s spreading across America.<a href="https://t.co/V7IFpDDc8a">https://t.co/V7IFpDDc8a</a>
— LawEnforcementToday (@LawEnforceToday) <a href="https://twitter.com/LawEnforceToday/status/1281917435457740800?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 11, 2020</a></blockquote>
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‘Enter At Your Own Risk!’: Texas Police Group Puts Up Billboards Warning Those Entering Austin That City Defunded Police

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Longtime racial justice activist Al Sharpton took aim at the &#8220;Defund the Police&#8221; movement Tuesday, calling the thought of abolishing law enforcement a &#8220;latte liberal&#8221; fantasy.
Sharpton is the latest high-profile leftist to defect from the &#8220;Defund the Police&#8221; line, following in the footsteps of former Vice President-turned-2020 Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden, who refused to endorse the idea and has, more recently, worked to distance himself from ongoing anti-racism and anti-police brutality protests, particularly as they&#8217;ve become violent in places like Kenosha, Wisconsin.
Appearing on MSNBC to comment on New York City&#8217;s recent uptick in gun violence, something New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio dismissed on Tuesday, <a href="https://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/ny-bill-de-blasio-shootings-nypd-jouvert-20200908-y6vpo5occ5cp3ninx4pwrlisiu-story.html">according to the New York Daily News</a>, telling reporters the city had experienced an &#8220;overwhelmingly peaceful weekend.&#8221;
“We’ve always heard about the tale of two cities. On the side of the city that I come from, which is Blacker and poorer, we’ve seen more in terms of gun usage. I got a lot of attention when I did the eulogy for George Floyd’s funeral, but I also, a month later, preached a 1-year-old kid’s funeral in Brooklyn who was killed by a stray bullet,” Sharpton told host Joe Scarborough Tuesday morning.
“Six people were shot over Labor Day weekend at a festivity in Brooklyn,&#8221; Sharpton continued, &#8220;so I would say statistically we’re not much higher than where we were, but on the ground it is certainly feeling more violent, feeling more unsafe in unsafe communities.&#8221;
Sharpton, asked about the &#8220;Defund the Police&#8221; movement, claimed that the idea of abolishing law is enforcement the brainchild of rich leftists who see racial justice as an &#8220;academic&#8221; problem.
“We need to re-imagine how we do policing,&#8221; Sharpton said, &#8220;To take all policing off is something a latte liberal may go for as they sit around the Hamptons discussing this as an academic problem. But people living on the ground need proper policing.&#8221;
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Sharpton: Defunding the NYPD is &quot;something a Latte Liberal may go for as they sit around the Hamptons discussing this as an academic problem. But people living on the ground need proper policing.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/TkXnVgUBEq">pic.twitter.com/TkXnVgUBEq</a>
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Sharpton has been a longtime opponent of defunding and dismantling police departments, despite the fact that &#8220;defunding the police&#8221; is a key demand of core Black Lives Matter organization and the Black Lives Matter movement writ large.
<a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/sharpton-and-surprises-11597437790">According to The Wall Street Journal</a>, Sharpton has been questioning who, precisely, is behind the &#8220;Defund the Police&#8221; movement and whether they are in touch with the minority communities they&#8217;re ostensibly advocating for.
&#8220;Mr. Sharpton charged that some people are trying to &#8216;hijack&#8217; a movement intended to improve policing and redirect it toward the dangerous goal of removing police from the streets,&#8221; WSJ reported in August. &#8220;On MSNBC he called out &#8216;those that have no identity with the communities, that don’t live in any of the danger&#8217; but who are trying to &#8216;put us in harm’s way to fix some purist latte liberalism that they advocate.'&#8221;
He then accused the &#8220;latte&#8221; leftist crowd of retreating to high-income enclaves to read &#8220;so-called progressive literature to each other.&#8221;
Sharpton is hardly alone in believing that the &#8220;Defund the Police&#8221; movement would put minority communities in harm&#8217;s way. The <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/10/nyregion/defund-police-nyc-council.html">New York Times reports</a> that black lawmakers are overwhelmingly opposed to defunding the New York Police Department, and <a href="https://news.gallup.com/poll/316571/black-americans-police-retain-local-presence.aspx">Gallup notes</a> that just 19% of black Americans are on board with abolishing law enforcement.
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Minneapolis City Council members are now begrudgingly admitting that momentum has &#8220;slowed&#8221; on plans to defund the city&#8217;s police department and replace it with a &#8220;community-oriented&#8221; law enforcement solution, and it&#8217;s not likely the effort &#8212; backed largely by far-left progressive council members &#8212; will result in any movement on the issue.
The Minneapolis City Council immediately voted to dismantle and replace the Minneapolis Police Department after a video went viral showing Minneapolis police officers arresting and, eventually kneeling on the neck of George Floyd, who later died in their custody. The incident sparked national outrage and vast anti-police brutality and anti-racism marches that still continue in some cities.
<a href="https://www.startribune.com/momentum-slows-in-minneapolis-city-council-s-plan-to-remake-police/572329932/?refresh=true">The Minneapolis Star-Tribune reports</a> that the abolition movement quickly fell apart after the city&#8217;s Charter Commission blocked a plan to put the proposal on the November ballot citing, as <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/minneapolis-charter-commission-blocks-city-council-effort-to-abolish-police-department">The Daily Wire reported</a> last month, the City Council&#8217;s failure to complete a plan for replacing the police department with another law enforcement arm. The Charter Commission excoriated the council over its lack of foresight, and its inability to elaborate on a plan for a &#8220;holistic, public health-oriented&#8221; approach to policing.
And although some city council members were quick to suggest that wanting to keep police around to prevent violent crime was a form <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/minneapolis-council-president-ducks-question-over-how-defund-police-push-would-affect-crime-victims">of &#8220;privilege</a>,&#8221; city residents, finding themselves in the midst of a dramatic spike in violent crime, are certainly more hesitant, the paper suggests, to abolish the city&#8217;s law enforcement division.
&#8220;The Minneapolis City Council’s resolve to end the city’s police department has lost momentum, the result of the failure to get the question before voters in November and council members’ diverging ideas on the role of sworn officers in the future,&#8221; the Star-Tribune reported Tuesday. &#8220;In the three months since nine council members pledged to end the department following George Floyd’s killing, the city has experienced a surge in violent crime, another night of unrest and blowback from residents who felt they had been left out of the initial conversations about change.&#8221;
&#8220;Some council members have remained consistent in their statements about policing,&#8221; the outlet noted, &#8220;while others have softened their rhetoric, saying now that they do envision officers as part of any revamping of public safety.&#8221;
Even the City Council member, Liza Bender, who was quick to suggest that wanting protection from crimes like burglary was a form of &#8220;privilege&#8221; is now recanting, telling the Minneapolis Star-Tribune that the plan to dismantle and replace the Minneapolis Police Department is more &#8220;complicated&#8221; than she initially presumed.
“I think when you take a statement and then move into policy work, it gets more complicated,” Bender said.
Activists are disappointed, they tell the Star-Tribune, but do realize that, perhaps, the complete abolition of police was a lofty goal.
Minneapolis is still recovering from the aftermath of riots and looting that took place following Floyd&#8217;s death. The city anticipates paying out for hundreds of millions of dollars in damages to some of the area&#8217;s hardest-hit communities.
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University of Chicago students staged an &#8220;occupation&#8221; demanding that the school&#8217;s provost, Ka Yee Lee, abolish the campus police department and expand the school&#8217;s commitment to diversity &#8212; but not everything is going smoothly for the student group.
A similar group of protesters occupied the University of Chicago police department&#8217;s offices earlier this summer as part of national anti-racism and anti-police brutality demonstrations that happened in response to George Floyd&#8217;s death while in the custody of the Minneapolis Police Department. That occupation was cut short, however, when UChicago campus police refused to allow &#8220;occupiers&#8221; to get pizza deliveries while inside their building, <a href="https://www.thecollegefix.com/u-chicago-activists-occupy-campus-police-hq-upset-pizza-they-ordered-not-allowed-in/">according to The College Fix</a>, and did not allow occupiers to use the building&#8217;s bathroom facilities, forcing them to choose between standing for social justice and relieving their bladders.
The new occupation, the <a href="https://freebeacon.com/campus/uchicago-student-activists-refuse-to-end-occupation-of-provosts-house-until-university-police-is-abolished/">Washington Free Beacon</a> reports, is demanding &#8220;the abolition of the university&#8217;s police force, the formation of cultural centers, and the development of a &#8216;Critical Race and Ethnic Studies Department.&#8217; The new department, the group writes, would be required to teach &#8216;revolutionary histories, abolish all academic penalties … [and] redistribute resources to students and communities of color.'&#8221;
The University of Chicago&#8217;s provost responded to protesters&#8217; demands in <a href="https://provost.uchicago.edu/announcements/statement-regarding-ucpd-protests">an open letter</a>, flatly refusing to defund the UChicago campus police, and noting that protesters have repeatedly declined invitations to private meetings with school administration.
&#8220;I have offered to meet with the protesters,&#8221; the letter read. &#8220;In fact, since their occupation of the UCPD headquarters on June 11, we have communicated a standing invitation for representatives of the group to meet with me. We reiterated that offer again this week. However, they have refused, insisting that even the initial meeting must be conducted in a public forum and focus on how to implement their demand to defund and disband the UCPD. They have rejected a constructive dialogue about their concerns and the UCPD.&#8221;
Instead, it seems, the students prefer to protest, though the occupation has met with difficulty.
On Friday, protesters formed a &#8220;barricade&#8221; to keep out around a dozen Chicago police officers assigned to monitor the protest, but the barricade consisted of just one row of sandbags backed by a number of decorative chairs and a mattress.
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Protesters link arms behind their barricade here at 49/Greenwood in <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Kenwood?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Kenwood</a>. They’re all in good spirits despite this being their 7th day occupying. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/ChicagoProtests?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#ChicagoProtests</a> <a href="https://t.co/EiXRJaULOk">pic.twitter.com/EiXRJaULOk</a>
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Chicago police quickly dismantled the barrier and ordered protesters to disperse.
Late last week, after their initial demonstrations failed to produce results, student protesters spraypainted messages in front of provost Ka Yee Lee&#8217;s home, including a number of obscene phrases in Chinese.
&#8220;The demonstrators spray-painted messages in the street immediately outside her house,&#8221; the Free Beacon noted. &#8220;Written in Chinese characters was, &#8216;Don&#8217;t you care about your reputation&#8217; and, more offensively, &#8216;F—k your mother.'&#8221;
The graffiti drew &#8220;an intense outcry from students, even those on the left, who accused #CareNotCops of anti-Asian racism and harassment. Provost Ka Yee Lee, born in Hong Kong, studied at Brown University and has been a professor at the University of Chicago since 1998.&#8221;
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University Of Chicago Students Set Up ‘Occupation,’ Demand Campus Police Be Disbanded

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President Donald Trump has reportedly ordered the federal government to initiate a review that could result in the defunding of four Democrat-controlled cities that have allowed &#8220;lawless&#8221; behavior to transpire during protests and that have moved to cut police budgets while violent crime has surged.
“My Administration will not allow Federal tax dollars to fund cities that allow themselves to deteriorate into lawless zones,” Trump <a href="https://nypost.com/2020/09/02/trump-orders-review-to-defund-nyc-other-anarchist-cities/">says</a> in the memo, according to the New York Post. “To ensure that Federal funds are neither unduly wasted nor spent in a manner that directly violates our Government’s promise to protect life, liberty, and property, it is imperative that the Federal Government review the use of Federal funds by jurisdictions that permit anarchy, violence, and destruction in America’s cities.”
The order targets New York City, Portland, Seattle, and Washington, D.C., all of which have seen violent riots from far-left extremists and widespread looting. The memo also instructs Attorney General William Barr to compile a list of &#8220;anarchist jurisdictions&#8221; that have &#8220;permitted violence and the destruction of property to persist and have refused to undertake reasonable measures&#8221; to restore order.
The memo states that New York Democrat Governor Andrew Cuomo and New York City Democrat Mayor Bill de Blasio &#8220;allowed violence to spike&#8221; while rejecting the president&#8217;s offer to send in federal law enforcement officers to restore order.
&#8220;While violence has surged, arrests have plummeted,&#8221; the memo reportedly states. &#8220;In a 28-day period during the months of June and July, [New York City] arrests were down 62 percent from the same period in 2019. Amidst the rising violence, Mayor Bill de Blasio and the New York City Council agreed to cut one billion dollars from the New York Police Department (NYPD) budget, including by cancelling the hiring of 1,163 officers.&#8221;
The memo states that District of Columbia Democrat Mayor Muriel Bowser &#8220;allowed rioters and anarchists to engage in violence and destruction in late May and early June, requiring me to call in the National Guard to maintain law and order in the Nation’s Capital.&#8221;
The New York Post&#8217;s report notes that New York City receives nearly $7 billion per year in federal aid, which could be cut as a result of the Trump administration&#8217;s new action. The city on the list that receives the smallest amount of federal funding per year is Portland at approximately $252 million.
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This report has been updated to include additional information.
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Trump Orders Feds To Begin Process To Defund 4 ‘Lawless’ Cities That Have Cut Police Budgets

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Video footage posted online from a recent protest against police in Lafayette, Louisiana, shows an older man slowly driving through demonstrators who are blocking off the entrance to the Circle K gas station and convenience store.
The protesters, screaming &#8220;No Justice, No Peace, No Racist Police,&#8221; are seen pounding and jumping on the man&#8217;s pickup truck as he slowly drives forward, moving them out of the way, to make his way to a pump.
The protesters, stunned the man is driving forward, become increasingly angry. &#8220;We are children!&#8221; one of the female protesters yells. &#8220;We&#8217;re f***ing children!&#8221;
However, when the man makes his way through the protesters and arrives at the pump, most of the demonstrators flee.
&#8220;You need to go back to wherever you came from,&#8221; one of the fleeing male protesters yells to the man, to which he calmly responds, &#8220;It&#8217;s like right around the corner.&#8221;
From the available video, which was <a href="https://notthebee.com/article/no-matter-how-many-times-i-watch-this-video-i-still-cant-believe-its-not-satire">posted</a> to YouTube by Adam Ford on Monday, it&#8217;s unclear if the man was ever able to pump his gas, as he&#8217;s blocked by at least one larger protester standing in front of the pump. The man is, however, called a &#8220;racist&#8221; and &#8220;domestic terrorist&#8221; and accused of trying to &#8220;incite&#8221; a &#8220;riot.&#8221;
&#8220;Let me talk to them really quick,&#8221; one of the protesters tells the woman videotaping the protest, according to Ford. &#8220;This is the type of foolishness that we&#8217;re talking about. This man took his vehicle and tried to blast it through a peaceful protest, and tried tried to kill us! That&#8217;s exactly what happened!&#8221;
&#8220;You wanna talk about inciting a riot?&#8221; the protester said. &#8220;That&#8217;s inciting! That&#8217;s called domestic terrorism! That&#8217;s a domestic terrorist! Make sure that they heard it. This is domestic terrorism!&#8221;
The video is narrated by a female voice, explaining that the protest is being held at the Circle K over the death of 31-year-old Lafayette resident Trayford Pellerin, who was fatally shot last month during an interaction with Lafayette police.
TIME Magazine <a href="https://time.com/5882705/police-shooting-black-man-louisiana">reported</a> last month on the fatal shooting: &#8220;Lafayette Police Department officers responded to a disturbance and found a man, 31-year-old Lafayette resident Trayford Pellerin, allegedly armed with a knife in a convenience store’s parking lot, <a href="http://www.lsp.org/news.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">the state police said</a>. The officers tried to approach Pellerin, but he ran away, and the officers followed him on foot as he walked from the convenience store, which was at a Circle K gas station, to a Shell gas station, according to the <a href="https://www.theadvertiser.com/story/news/2020/08/21/least-one-person-shot-lafayette-police-state-police-investigate/3416794001/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Lafayette Daily Advertiser</a>. The officers shot him with tasers, but didn’t manage to stop him, the State Police said.&#8221;
&#8220;As Pellerin tried to go inside the Shell convenience store, the officers shot him, the state police said. The police shot him &#8217;10+ times,&#8217; Benjamin Crump, a civil rights attorney representing Pellerin’s family, wrote on Twitter,&#8221; the report added. &#8220;Police said Pellerin was brought to a local hospital, where he died. The Lafayette Police Department requested that the Louisiana State Police Bureau of Investigations look into the shooting, the state police said.&#8221;
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Old Man Slowly Drives Through Protest To Pump Gas; Protesters Call Him Racist, Domestic Terrorist

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Portland progressive groups have banded together to demand that Portland&#8217;s mayor, Ted Wheeler &#8212; a frequent foil for President Donald Trump on the issue of riot control &#8212; resign over his lack of leadership.
Other Portland progressives staged a massive demonstration outside Wheeler&#8217;s Portland condominium for his birthday, dancing in the streets outside Wheeler&#8217;s residence and tossing flaming objects at the building.
Portland&#8217;s chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America &#8212; one of the most active chapters of the political group in the country &#8212; declared their opposition to Wheeler over the weekend, demanding that he cede power to someone more willing and able to exert control over ongoing unrest &#8212; unrest that has now stretched into nearly its 100th night.
A deadly shooting, which saw a &#8220;right-wing protester&#8221; taking part in a counter-demonstration to ongoing &#8220;anti-Fascist&#8221; protests in the city&#8217;s downtown, attacked and killed, inspired the decision to call for Wheeler&#8217;s resignation, the group said.
“I don’t think we can see what happened last night in a vacuum or as an isolated incident,” the <a href="https://www.oregonlive.com/portland/2020/08/progressive-community-leaders-call-for-portland-mayor-to-resign-following-deadly-shooting.html">group told Oregon Live</a>. “People are going to be killed on both sides of this because of the environment Ted Wheeler has been making in the city.”
&#8220;[T&#8217;he Oregon chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, the Oregon Justice Resource Center, the Portland Democratic Socialists of America NextUp Action Fund, [and] Portland’s Resistance and Popular Mobilization PDX,&#8221; issued their own letter demanding Wheeler resign.
“What took place last night was inevitable given Mayor Wheeler’s repeated failure,” the letter said, per Oregon Live. “He has not protected or supported Portlanders. We do not have confidence in his ability to course-correct. He must resign.”
Wheeler has certainly struggled to control violence in his own city and has been on the receiving end of harsh criticism from now less than President Donald Trump, who tweeted Monday that Wheeler had lost control over his city. Wheeler fired back, echoing national Democrats and blaming the president for &#8220;rhetoric&#8221; that he says inspired the unrest to begin with.
&#8220;It&#8217;s you who have created the hate and the division. It&#8217;s you who have not found a way to say the names of Black people killed by police officers even as people in law enforcement have. And it&#8217;s you who claimed that White supremacists are good people,&#8221; Wheeler said. &#8220;Your campaign of fear is as anti-democratic as anything you&#8217;ve done to create hate and vitriol in our beautiful country.&#8221;
&#8220;Do you seriously wonder, Mr. President, why this is the first time in decades that America has seen this level of violence?&#8221; he added.
Trump fired back, &#8220;Portland will never recover with a fool for a mayor&#8230;he tried mixing with the agitators and anarchists and they mocked him. He would like to blame me and the federal government for going in, but he hasn’t seen anything yet.”
But while it might seem the president and Portland progressives are on the same side, the progressive groups are actually pressing for a more lenient approach to ongoing protests and want Wheeler replaced by a mayor who will defund Portland&#8217;s police department and cede to protesters&#8217; demands, on the theory that such action will put an end to ongoing unrest.
The group appears to be supporting a write-in campaign for community activist Teressa Raiford who &#8220;is the founder of nonprofit Don’t Shoot PDX, which has sued the city and federal authorities in recent months over police tactics during demonstrations such as using tear gas on crowds,&#8221; according to Oregon Live.
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Portland Progressives Declare War On Mayor Ted Wheeler, Demand Resignation

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A group of protesters in Montreal ripped down and decapitated a bronze statue of John A. Macdonald, Canada&#8217;s first prime minister, on Saturday, prompting condemnation from the city&#8217;s mayor, who pledged to replace it.
Video posted to Twitter depicted a mob toppling Macdonald&#8217;s image, the head of which flew off as it crashed to the ground, eliciting cheers from the crowd as a protester tried unsuccessfully to lift it. Crews removed the ruined statue on Sunday.
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Statue taken down today in so-called <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Montreal?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Montreal</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/BlackLivesMatter?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#BlackLivesMatter</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/DefundPolice?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#DefundPolice</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/manifencours?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#manifencours</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/decolonize?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#decolonize</a> Kanada <a href="https://t.co/0TYGayWUiK">pic.twitter.com/0TYGayWUiK</a>
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In a <a href="https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/defund-police-protest-black-lives-matter-1.5705101" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">statement</a>, Montreal Mayor Valérie Plante said in part, &#8220;I strongly deplore the acts of vandalism that took place this afternoon in downtown Montreal.&#8221;
&#8220;I understand and share the motivation of citizens who want to live in a more just and inclusive society. But the discussion and the necessary actions must be carried out peacefully, without ever resorting to vandalism,&#8221; she continued, adding, &#8220;The public art office will secure the perimeter and coordinate the conservation of the statue.&#8221;
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Some historical monuments, here as elsewhere, are at the heart of current emotional debates. I reiterate that it&#39;s better to put them in context rather than remove them. I am also in favour of adding monuments that are more representative of the society to which we aspire. (2/4)
&mdash; Valérie Plante (@Val_Plante) <a href="https://twitter.com/Val_Plante/status/1299826942242418690?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 29, 2020</a></blockquote>
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The public art office will secure the perimeter and coordinate the conservation of the statue. In consultation with the city&#39;s heritage experts, we will take the time to analyze the next steps to be taken. For its part, the SPVM will conduct its investigation. (4/4)
&mdash; Valérie Plante (@Val_Plante) <a href="https://twitter.com/Val_Plante/status/1299826944335380481?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 29, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Statues of Macdonald have been a <a href="https://www.ctvnews.ca/mobile/canada/their-time-has-come-calls-increase-for-removal-of-statues-linked-to-colonial-legacy-1.4979262?cache=yes?clipId=375756" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">targeted for removal</a> for months, based on charges of racism against the man who helped stabilize the British colony&#8217;s faction-ridden political system and lead to its establishment as a nation in 1867. Macdonald served 19 years as the nation&#8217;s first prime minister, and died in 1891 while still in office.
According to the <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-53963665" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">BBC</a>, a 2015 Canadian government report described the residential school system implemented under Macdonald as &#8220;cultural genocide&#8221; because it forcibly removed indigenous children from their families and placed them in state-funded boarding schools, where some of them were abused and died.
The statue&#8217;s removal was organized by a group that is also calling for defunding the police, according to a flyer obtained by <a href="https://globalnews.ca/news/7306382/vandalism-of-our-history-premier-jason-kenney-condemns-toppling-of-john-a-macdonald-statue-in-montreal/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Global News</a>.
&#8220;Today, inspired by a summer of rebellion and anti-racist protest, a diverse coalition of young activists take it upon themselves to act where the city has failed,” the flyer read. &#8220;We offer this action in solidarity with the Indigenous peoples of Tio’tia:ke, Turtle Island and across the globe, and all those fighting against colonialism and anti-Blackness in the struggle for a better world.&#8221;
An indigenous educator named Omeasoo Wāhpāsiw lauded the vandalism, according to the <a href="https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/prince-edward-island/upei-educator-supports-protest-against-statues-of-historical-figures-1.5705446" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Canadian Broadcasting Company</a> (CBC). &#8220;It makes such a strong statement about how the protesters feel about what Canada is currently structured on, and what changes need to be made, and how we need to reassess our history,&#8221; she said.
CBC continued:
<blockquote>Wāhpāsiw disputes the idea that colonial pressures have ended, which is why she argues in favour of dismantling and challenging the legacy on which the nation is fundamentally built.
&#8220;There are people in Canada who continue to be marginalized and that is part — almost entirely — due to the fact that capitalism is a system that oppresses people and in order to succeed, many people have to suffer and often those are people who are Indigenous, Black and people of colour,&#8221; she said.
Wāhpāsiw supports what she calls protesters vandalizing the statues in a way that maintains the historical figure while acknowledging and expressing critical perspectives on its history.
&#8220;It reminds us that, no, we&#8217;re not happy with it and we&#8217;d like to change it.&#8221;</blockquote>
By contrast, Premier of Alberta Jason Kenney came out forcefully against the statue&#8217;s destruction in a four-tweet thread on Twitter, saying in part, &#8220;This vandalism of our history and heroes must stop. As his biographer Richard Gwyn wrote, &#8216;no Macdonald, no Canada.&#8217; Both Macdonald &amp; the country he created were flawed but still great.&#8221;
Kenney noted that many of the leftists who are denouncing Canada as &#8220;a failed state&#8221; nevertheless benefit from the country&#8217;s &#8220;rights, freedoms, privileges &amp; prosperity.&#8221;
&#8220;None of those things were created by accident,&#8221; Kenney continued. &#8220;They come from the vision &amp; sacrifice of those who went before us, particularly Macdonald himself. He was an immigrant who suffered unimaginable personal trauma throughout his life, which he overcame to forge an enormous country out of divided factions. It’s right to debate his legacy and life. But it is wrong to allow roving bands of thugs to vandalize our history with impunity.&#8221;
Kenney concluded by saying that he would welcome a replacement of the Macdonald statue at the Alberta Legislature if the mayor of Montreal did not restore it.
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2/ Many of those on the extreme left responsible for this kind of violence claim that Canada is an illegitimate state, all the while enjoying Canada’s rights, freedoms, privileges &amp; prosperity. None of those things were created by accident. They come from the vision &amp; sacrifice
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4/ to allow roving bands of thugs to vandalize our history with impunity.
If the City of Montreal decides not to restore Wade’s statue of Macdonald to where it has stood for 125 years, we would be happy to receive it for installation on the grounds of Alberta’s Legislature.
&mdash; Jason Kenney (@jkenney) <a href="https://twitter.com/jkenney/status/1299812161766658054?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 29, 2020</a></blockquote>
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According to <a href="https://globalnews.ca/news/7306382/vandalism-of-our-history-premier-jason-kenney-condemns-toppling-of-john-a-macdonald-statue-in-montreal/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Global News</a>, Kenney also appeared on a radio show to explain, &#8220;These are basically people that [have] Marxist, extreme-left political ideology, who believe in using violence. And that’s what it was. It was violence against public property, against a symbol of Canada.&#8221;
&#8220;Why were the police standing by watching the statue get torn down? One of the principles of the country that John Macdonald helped to found was the principle of the rule of law, and that was violated &#8230; by violent anarchists who hate this country,&#8221; Kenney added.
During the statue&#8217;s <a href="http://collectionscanada.ca/obj/023012/f2/amicus-5744260.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">dedication ceremony</a> in 1895, four years after Macdonald’s death, a speaker extolled Macdonald for his impact on those who knew him:
<blockquote>He was, in many respects, an ideal nature. They said he had personal magnetism, which was but a cold way of saying that those who knew him, loved him. His handshake was a passport to friendship, and his friendship, when gained, was as lasting as iron. Absolute fidelity was one of his traits — fidelity to friends, fidelity to country, fidelity to Queen. He was not a hypocrite; he was a man, with a man&#8217;s appreciation of the temptations and the weaknesses of men.
But why analyse a character that proved its own worth daily by the sure way in which it won the affection and confidence of men! Of his talents as a tactician, of his abilities as a leader, of his length and breadth of vision as a statesman, the achievements of his life speak with sufficient emphasis. He has proven his possession of so many qualities, that his most familiar biographer can have little new to tell.
But this is an occasion to remember rather of his kindnesses; his loyalty to his friends; the things that he did, not for personal glory, nor even to serve the nation or the empire, but simply to help a fellow traveller on the rugged path of life. His hand was always busy with such deeds of pure friendship. He was loyal; he was patriotic; he was broad-minded; he was a national optimist; he was human-hearted; he was great.</blockquote>
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Protesters Topple Statue Of Canada’s First Prime Minister In Montreal

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Portland, Oregon, Mayor Ted Wheeler has done just about everything he can to appease the protesters and rioters who have taken hold of his city in the past few months, yet even that isn’t enough to satisfy the mob.
On Friday night, a group of protesters descended upon Wheeler’s condo building and began chanting, playing music, and dancing. The progressive organization Rising Tide North America posted video of protesters entering the building and refusing to leave by linking their arms with tubes. The protesters demanded Wheeler resign, abolish the police by 2022 without any kind of replacement, and give the money saved to black, indigenous, and people of color (BIPOC) communities as well as other city services.
KATU2 <a href="https://katu.com/news/local/protesters-gather-at-mayor-ted-wheeler-northwest-portland-condo">reported</a> that Wheeler’s office released a statement during the protest saying it was “monitoring the situation and hope protesters remain peaceful for the safety of other residents.” Journalist Andy Ngo tweeted Friday night that “Security for <a href="https://twitter.com/tedwheeler">@tedwheeler</a>’s condo said a while ago they called police but no one has showed up so far.”
“That part of the Pearl District in NW Portland is currently completely occupied by far-left protesters demanding he resign,” Ngo continued.
Ngo continued to tweet that protesters appeared to be vandalizing Wheeler’s building with red paint, and held a metal concert – complete with mosh pit – outside the building. They also flashed high-powered lights onto the building. The noise apparently angered other tenants, at least one of whom allegedly dumped water on the protesters from a window.
The crowed reportedly thinned around 10 p.m. local time, Fox News <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/portland-protesters-stage-sit-in-at-mayors-home-after-he-and-trump-trade-barbs">reported</a>.
The protests occurred even after Wheeler sent President Donald Trump <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/portland-mayor-sends-nasty-mocking-letter-rejecting-trumps-offer-to-help">a nasty letter</a> rejecting federal aid to quell the riots in Portland. The letter condemned Trump’s “politics of division and demagoguery” and accused Trump of having a “reckless disregard for human life.”
Wheeler went on to condemn violence in the city, even though he has allowed it to continue. Wheeler then blamed Trump’s attempt to stop the violence for making the situation worse.
“When you sent the feds to Portland last month, you made the situation far worse. Your offer to repeat that disaster is a cynical attempt to stoke fear and distract us from the real work of our city,” Wheeler wrote.
Despite the letter, protesters demanded Wheeler resign and abolish the police.
Earlier this week, The Daily Wire’s Emily Zanotti <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/report-portland-mayor-ted-wheeler-considered-telling-police-to-stand-down-as-riots-ravaged-downtown">reported</a> that Wheeler considered giving police a stand-down order as the riots took off downtown. Oregon Public Broadcasting released a report stating: “In late July, Mayor Ted Wheeler had an idea he hoped would end the nightly clashes between protesters and police in Portland. He texted Sonia Schmanski, a top aide, that he had a plan that was ‘high risk,’ but he added that the city had ‘nothing to lose.&#8217; His idea: Tell his police force to stand down from the demonstrations.”
Wheeler didn’t end up instituting the plan after the U.S. Department of Homeland Security made a deal with Gov. Kate Brown (D-OR) to turn over riot control. That caused the demonstrations to die down in Portland’s downtown area, but they soon moved to the residential districts.
“I was persuaded that a complete withdrawal, even for one evening to test the ability to completely deescalate the situation, would be a risk that was too great,” Wheeler said. “We could not risk the people who were in the immediate vicinity.”
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Residents of Minneapolis, Minnesota, shocked by the recent spike in crime, sued the city on Thursday, demanding the Minneapolis City Council abandon its plan to defund and disband the Minneapolis Police Department and claiming that the city council has violated the city&#8217;s charter by allowing the number of police officers to dwindle.
Following George Floyd&#8217;s death while in the custody of the Minneapolis Police Department, the Minneapolis City Council moved almost immediately to defund and disband the city&#8217;s law enforcement divisions and replace them with community-oriented alternatives.
Although members of the council, including its president, were adamant about the move – the president even went so far as to say that protection from crime was a &#8220;privilege&#8221; – they were stopped by the Minneapolis Charter Commission, which blocked their proposal.
Now residents are saying the City Council&#8217;s plan to defund the police department has encouraged crime and, at the same time, left Minneapolis residents unprotected.
“We are a community that is riddled with crime we are under siege,” Cathy Spann, one of the residents who is suing the city told the local CBS affiliate. “You cannot disband and dismantle police departments and leave communities such as this where we face the worst disparities in the nation you cannot leave us with nothing.&#8221;
Minneapolis &#8220;is 20 homicides ahead of where it was this time last year,&#8221; the CBS affiliate notes; it has also, at this point, surpassed the total number of homicides for 2019.
“The lawsuit says that you are in violation of the charter by you defunding the police department you have gone below per capita the number of police officers that are required according to the law and the charter is the law of the city of Minneapolis it’s like our constitution,” Spann said.
Although the Minneapolis City Council has not yet officially disbanded the police department, the residents argue, they&#8217;ve made life so difficult for police officers that many are retiring or going on disability.
Indeed, as <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/unusually-large-number-of-minneapolis-police-are-quitting-cite-lack-of-support-from-citys-democrat-leaders-riots">The Daily Wire reported</a> earlier this year, Minneapolis police are retiring at an &#8220;unusually&#8221; high rate.
“Morale has sunk to new lows in recent weeks, say department insiders, as officers reported feeling misunderstood and squeezed by all sides: by the state probe; by protesters, who hurled bricks and epithets their way; by city leaders, who surrendered a police station that later burned on national television, and by the media. Numerous officers and protesters were injured the rioting,” the Minneapolis Star-Tribune said back in June.
The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/minneapolis-police-officers-seeking-disability-for-ptsd-after-riots-that-shocked-city">also reported</a> that Minneapolis police officers are suffering from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, or PTSD, from their role in quashing the riots that took place immediately following George Floyd&#8217;s death.
If the lawsuit resolves in the residents&#8217; favor, the city council will be barred from following through with its plan to defund and disband the Minneapolis Police Department, and the mayor will be compelled to ensure citizens&#8217; safety.
The city attorney is looking over the lawsuit, CBS says.
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Minneapolis Residents Sue City Over Spike In Crime, Demand City Stop Campaign To Defund Police

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In a seeming attempt to distance Joe Biden from the more radical elements of the Democratic Party, DNC communications director Xochitl Hinojosa said that the campaign does not want to &#8220;defund the police.&#8221;
The Biden campaign does “not support defunding the police,” DNC communications director Xochitl Hinojosa insisted Wednesday on “<a href="https://www.foxnews.com/shows/americas-newsroom" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">America’s Newsroom</a>.”
“The campaign has been very clear when it comes to defunding the police,” Hinojosa said on “<a href="https://www.foxnews.com/shows/americas-newsroom" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">America’s Newsroom</a>” Wednesday morning. “They do not support defunding the police, and I don’t know how many times we have to say this on this network or others, but that is the case.”
As reported by <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/dnc-spokesperson-insists-dems-do-not-support-defunding-police">Fox News</a>, Hinojosa was responding to an <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/will-the-real-kamala-harris-please-stand-up-11597792447">op-ed written by Jason Riley</a> in The Wall Street Journal characterizing Kamala Harris as a former prosecutor-turned-anti-cop-radical.
“Once a tough-on-crime prosecutor, she now can’t answer a simple question about defunding the police,” Riley wrote.
When pressed on if the “defund the police” movement will be addressed during the convention, Hinojosa only said that a Biden-Harris presidency is one that will unite America.
&#8220;What you will hear from Kamala Harris is you will hear that she will be a steady leader and ready to lead on day one,&#8221; said Hinojosa.
&#8220;And a Joe Biden-Kamala Harris presidency is one that will lift people up, unite our country, and make sure that with the unrest happening all across this country that we’re doing everything we can to bring people together,” she continued. &#8220;We are about inclusion, not exclusion, and that’s what you will see in our program over these four nights versus next week, you will see divisiveness, you will see chaos. That is exactly what we expect from Republicans next week.&#8221;
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“So you will talk about the fact that you’ve got police retiring in record numbers across the country, a drop in morale that is harmful to people who don’t feel safe in some of our streets?” host Sandra Smith responded. “Is that a guarantee we’re going to hear about that tonight? Because that’s been missing from the last couple nights.”
“I actually point to the conversation that Joe Biden had on racial justice,” Hinojosa replied. “You had someone from law enforcement involved in the program from Houston where he talks about that a lot of the cops that are out there and the police officers, your law enforcement, are good people, and he talked a little bit about Joe Biden’s steady leadership.”
“At the same time, we need to make sure that we are providing law enforcement the tools they need and the training that they need in order to do their jobs, and right now the Trump administration hasn’t done that,” she continued.
As The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/i-dont-blame-a-single-soul-flurry-of-retirements-threatens-to-leave-chicago-short-on-police">reported</a>, police officers in Chicago have been retiring from their jobs at an “unheard of” rate.
&#8220;The Chicago Police Department is set to retire 59 police officers by the end of the month followed by another 51 by the end of September, according to Michael Lappe, who sits on the board of trustees for the Policemen’s Annuity and Benefit Fund of Chicago,&#8221; the report said.
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DNC Spokesperson: Biden Campaign Does ‘Not Support Defunding The Police’

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Officers are retiring from Chicago’s police force at an “unheard of” rate as law enforcement faces mounting pressure from activists, elected officials, and riots amid the coronavirus pandemic.
Chicago Police Department veterans and city officials are worried that the sudden rush of retirements is going to leave the police force short on officers and strain those who are left with hectic schedules, according to <a href="https://chicago.suntimes.com/politics/2020/8/17/21372795/chicago-police-department-retirements-policemens-annuity-benefit-fund-michael-lappe">The Chicago Sun-Times</a>.
The Chicago Police Department is set to retire 59 police officers by the end of the month followed by another 51 by the end of September, according to Michael Lappe, who sits on the board of trustees for the Policemen’s Annuity and Benefit Fund of Chicago.
“That’s unheard of,” Lappe said. “We’re seeing double the average number of retirees each month. The average is about 24 a month.”
Fraternal Order of Police President John Catanzara put at least part of the blame on Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot.
“I have no doubt that it’s going to continue, and I can clearly see a smaller spike within the upper ranks [of] lieutenants and above,” Catanzara said. “Who wants to stay in this environment? If you have the ability to leave, there is no incentive to stay anymore.&#8221;
“The mayor doesn’t back us,” he continued. “If you have the financial ability to do so, I don’t blame a single soul for leaving.”
<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/this-is-reparations-blm-chicago-defends-looting-holds-rally-for-protesters-arrested-in-sundays-riots">Looters and rioters trashed</a> parts of the city, including its “Magnificent Mile” shopping district, in early August. Chicago Police Superintendent David Brown blamed Lightfoot and Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx for “emboldening” lawless behavior by refusing to take strong action against earlier rounds of mass violence.
“Criminals took to the streets with the confidence that there would be no consequences for their actions,” <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/chicago-police-superintendent-unloads-rioters-emboldened-by-no-consequences-in-criminal-system">Brown said</a> during an Aug. 9 press conference. “Let me say that again: Criminals took to the streets with the confidence that there would be no consequences for their actions.”
“These looters act as if there are no consequences for their behavior. And they base that on what happened previously, that we made a lot of arrests during May and June and not many of those cases were prosecuted to the fullest extent,” Brown continued. “We have to have consequences for the arrests that Chicago Police officers make, through great threat to their own safety, they’re being shot at to make these arrests. And these looters, these thieves, these criminals are emboldened by no consequences in the criminal system. They get released, many charges get dropped.”
Attempting to avoid another round of violence, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/chicago-police-union-wants-feds-to-charge-looters-who-trashed-citys-magnificent-mile">Catanzara asked U.S. Attorney John R. Lausch, Jr.</a>, to take federal action against alleged criminals arrested during the latest riots. Catanzara noted that the lack of action on the part of local prosecutors was putting police officers&#8217; lives in danger.
“Our members were subject to threats both verbally and physically, were battered with all types of bricks and rocks, and stood the line to help protect the citizens and their property,” Catanzara said. “Our offices did this with the understanding that the looters and criminals would be prosecuted and held to account for their actions. It appears that this is not going to happen.”
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‘I Don’t Blame A Single Soul’: Flurry Of Retirements Threatens To Leave Chicago Short On Police

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The Democrat-controlled Seattle City Council voted late on Monday to advance a highly controversial plan to defund the Seattle Police Department as violent crime and far-left riots have rocked the city in recent months.
The Seattle City Council <a href="https://council.seattle.gov/2020/08/10/council-president-gonzalez-summer-budget-rebalancing-effort-charts-a-course-for-community-informed-public-safety-interventions/">voted</a> to remove approximately $3 million from the Seattle Police Department&#8217;s budget, which included:
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<li>Cut 32 officers from patrol – $533,000</li>
<li>Reduced specialized units including officers assigned to mounted unit, school resource officers, homeland security, harbor patrol, SWAT team – $250,000</li>
<li>Removed officers from Navigation Team, ensuring homeless neighbors are not retraumatized by armed patrol officers – $216,000</li>
<li>Reduced staff budget through recognizing expected attrition – $500,000</li>
<li>Reduced administrative costs, including salaries, community outreach, public affairs</li>
<li>Cut $56,000 from training and travel expenses</li>
<li>Cut recruitment and retention – $800,000</li>
<li>Transferred victim advocates from SPD to Human Services Department – $377,000 impact</li>
<li>Removed two sworn officer positions from the 911 Emergency Call Center</li>
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&#8220;The committee voted to move the bulk of its proposal forward during its 10 a.m. session, before giving its final approval Monday evening by a 7-1 margin,&#8221; MyNorthWest <a href="https://mynorthwest.com/2083086/city-council-expected-approve-cuts-spd/">reported</a>. &#8220;Councilmember Kshama Sawant was the lone “no” vote, while Debora Juarez — who was not present at Monday’s meetings — abstained. Sawant’s vote against the package was based around her belief that it didn’t go far enough in its reductions to SPD’s funding.&#8221;
Fox News <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/us/chicago-shootings-homicides-july-2020">reported</a> at the start of the month that Seattle was one of several Democrat-controlled cities that had seen a recent spike in &#8220;shootings and murders.&#8221;
“It’s scary, when the cops aren’t here and there’s shootings, people flying up and down the road just having no regard to anybody it seems like,” a local resident <a href="https://komonews.com/news/local/its-scary-violent-property-crime-increasing-in-alki-beach-area">told</a> KOMO News.
KOMO News highlighted how in just one area of Seattle, Alki Beach, crime had exploded:
<blockquote>KOMO News did some digging and according to Seattle Police Department statistics, violent crimes and property crimes are up in the Alki Beach area.
According to Seattle Police, for the first seven months of the year, there were 238 crimes reported against people and property. It’s an increase from the same time in 2019 which had 163 reported crimes and 2018 which had 175 reported crimes.
The increase is 30 percent comparing crimes against people from 2019 to 2020 and a 50 percent increase comparing property crimes from 2019 to 2020.</blockquote>
“It’s a little disappointing,” another resident said. “I just feel there is a lack of police presence, even though you see them, they’re not engaging with the people who are out here dragging racing their cars till midnight or one o’clock, even when you’re calling them they don’t show up.”
“I think the police have the most difficult job in the country,” a third resident said. “I think they should be respected and commended for what they do.”
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Democrat-Controlled Seattle Votes To Defund Police As Violent Crime, Far-Left Riots Surge

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Black and Hispanic members of the New York City council are firing back at colleagues who support the movement to &#8220;Defund the Police,&#8221; calling the effort &#8220;white-led,&#8221; and an example of &#8220;political gentrification&#8221; and &#8220;colonization&#8221; &#8212; a &#8220;&#8216;bourgeois liberal&#8217; solution for addressing systemic racism,&#8221; per a report in The <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/10/nyregion/defund-police-nyc-council.html">New York Times</a>.
Councilmembers who represent minority districts say they aren&#8217;t supportive of Mayor Bill de Blasio&#8217;s plan to strip $1 billion from the New York Police Department (NYPD), even if they are supportive of efforts to reform the police, restrict their use of force, and even reduce the number of law enforcement officers overall.
&#8220;Black and Latino council members representing both poor and middle-class communities of color, including Brownsville, Brooklyn, and Jamaica, Queens, wanted to take a measured approach to cutting the police budget,&#8221; the NYT says. &#8220;White progressives, allied with some Latino council members from gentrifying and racially mixed neighborhoods and two Black council members, called for more aggressive reductions and reforms.&#8221;
One black councilwoman described the efforts to the NYT “&#8217;colonization&#8217; pushed by white progressives.&#8221; A black councilman from Brooklyn called the movement “political gentrification.”
The problem, they say, is many who are supportive of the movement to &#8220;Defund&#8221; police don&#8217;t have to live with the consequences. New York City is already experiencing a spike in violent crime and those who live in high-crime neighborhoods expect the situation to get worse if law enforcement is removed completely.
Some councilmembers say they&#8217;re being pressured to &#8220;defund&#8221; the police by people who don&#8217;t even live in New York.
&#8220;About a week after the Council’s vote, Councilwoman Diana Ayala, who represents East Harlem and the South Bronx, reflected on the movement to defund the police,&#8221; the NYT reported Monday. &#8220;She said that she had received thousands of emails in favor of it, but that most came from people who lived outside her district or in another state. She also said she had heard from about 60 callers from East Harlem who had voiced their support, and &#8216;half were white or new to the community.'&#8221;
Instead, city council members would prefer that the NYPD increase its transparency, limit what kinds of force officers can use, and reform its union.
Support for defunding the police is limited nationally. <a href="https://fortune.com/2020/07/09/defund-the-police-poll-most-americans-oppose-defunding-police-departments/">According to Gallup</a>, only around 25% of Americans support stripping some funding from police departments. More than 30% of those polled actually felt that police departments don&#8217;t receive enough funding.
As of last week, even NYC mayor Bill de Blasio was torn on the issue. Although the city council voted to take $1 billion from the NYPD coffers and spread it to other agencies, the mayor has yet to sign the measure, even though the NYPD has a budget of more than $85 billion and a $1 billion decrease &#8212; that&#8217;s &#8220;largely cosmetic&#8221; according to the NYT &#8212; would make little difference in law enforcement.
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