To my way of thinking, we will always need a local police force to
ensure the safety of all citizens. What needs to be changed are the
laws that are heavily weighted to protect the material wealth and
holdings of the Elite 1%.
If it weren't so sad, we should be applauding the cleverness of our
Corporate Masters. They have taken our young working class men and
women and turned them into the protectors of the riches of the Ruling
Class. Putting their lives on the line to make certain the Elite
Corporate bosses keep safe the money and property stolen from the
working class citizens, often the very parents of the cops doing their
Master's bidding.
But hey! If you think it can't get any worse, then pull up your
popcorn bag and grab a front row seat. This is a horror film you
won't believe.
Carl Jarvis
On 7/12/16, Frank Ventura <frank.ventura@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
From: Rashad Robinson [mailto:moveon-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Tuesday, July 12, 2016 3:46 PM
To: Frankie Ventura <Frank@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Defund police that continue to kill Black people
Our criminal justice system is not properly holding police accountable. We
must defund police departments that employ officers who do not value Black
life. Add your name.
Dear MoveOn member,
Black people and their allies have been boldly advocating for police reform
and accountability to end the unjust murders of Black people by police for
years. But nothing is changing. Will you sign the petition to President
Barack Obama and Congress and urge the federal government to stop funding
police departments that refuse to implement the reforms needed to protect
Black lives?<http://act.moveon.org/go/4623?t=1&akid=166636.34002256.fPbZbW>
Our criminal justice system is not properly holding police accountable. We
must defund police departments that employ officers who are quick to kill
and condone practices that do not value Black life. Our nation, politicians,
and many police are in agreement that police departments need reform.
However, no one is ensuring this reform happens and more and more Black
people are getting killed because of it.
Sign Rashad's
petition<http://act.moveon.org/go/4623?t=2&akid=166636.34002256.fPbZbW>
Four Black deaths in a matter of days. We're in—and have been in—a state of
emergency. Within a week, our nation has borne witness to the brutal
police-induced murders of Alton Sterling, Philando Castile, Delrawn Smalls,
and Alva Braziel. Instead of indicting the officers who killed these Black
men and reforming the departments that enable them, the federal government
continues to pour millions of dollars into the police departments that
employ them.
We can't afford to spend millions of dollars on police departments that will
continue killing Black people.
Join us in calling on President Obama and Congress to take executive action
to pull all grant funds from any police department that doesn't make reforms
to protect Black lives and to acknowledge the pain and frustration that
communities across the nation continue to feel when people like Alton
Sterling, Philando Castile, Delrawn Smalls, and Alva Braziel are brutally
and unjustly murdered.
Click here to add your name to this petition, and then pass it along to your
friends.<http://act.moveon.org/go/4623?t=3&akid=166636.34002256.fPbZbW>
Thanks!
—Rashad Robinson, ColorOfChange.org
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