Friend,
It’s been 80 days since George Floyd was murdered in broad daylight. But the police haven’t changed.
Over the weekend, LA county sheriff deputies pulled guns on Black teenagers who were being assaulted on the street.[1] While the world watches, American police continues to murder, wrongfully arrest, and brutalize Black Americans.
The police in this country are an overfunded agency of racial brutality. For Black lives to truly matter, they must be defunded
Hip Hop Caucus is mobilizing to demand that our elected officials Defund the Police. Sign on today!
Millions of Americans took to the streets in May and June in recognition of the fact that the police are a problem, not a solution. And the police took that opportunity to prove them right, by reacting to criticism with violence.
But the movement for justice is growing. We must continue to stand for justice until change comes. That means we must continually add our voices demanding that police be defunded.
Stand with Hip Hop Caucus: Defund the police!
Say it with me:
The origins of modern police departments were Slave Patrols.
The over-investment of our tax dollars in policing Black and Brown communities and the under-investment in supportive services is the foundation for mass criminalization and inequity in the United States.
Instead of increasing police departments budgets with even more money for impotent programs that serve as political cover for police and politicians, we must divert that money and significant money from our city and county policing budgets into services that strengthen individuals and communities.
We must defund the police and invest in Black and Brown communities!
For Future Generations,
Rev. Lennox Yearwood Jr
President & Founder
Hip Hop Caucus
[1] https://www.theroot.com/l-a-county-sheriff-deputies-aim-guns-at-black-teenager-1844676325
Hip Hop Caucus
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