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"Defund the police", a phrase popularized by Black Lives Matter during the George Floyd protests. In the United States, "defund the police" is a slogan advocating for reallocating funds from police departments to non-policing forms of public safety and community support initiatives, such as social services, youth programs, housing, education, healthcare, and other community resources.
On June 10, over 100 protesters surrounded South Pasadena City Hall in solidarity and to demand police reform. The group that organized the protest, the South Pasadena Youth for Police Reform, compiled a list of 21 demands for amending and reforming what they believe to be an outdated structure for local law enforcement. [75]
In 2020, a series of protests took place in California related to the murder of George Floyd on May 25, 2020, in Minneapolis, Minnesota, while in police custody. On May 31, 2020, the California Department of Human Resources advised "all state departments with offices in downtown city areas" to close on June 1.
Folks were in the streets, and people got quickly organized behind this slogan of 'defund the police,'" said Marqueece Harris-Dawson, a member of the Los Angeles City Council since 2015 and its ...
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Police stated that the crowd was peaceful. A large crowd stayed at the police headquarters while several hundred blocked traffic and shut down the I-5 downtown. [64] [65] 97 people were arrested. [66] Police officers ordered the crowds to disperse the Broadway area around 3:30pm due to rocks and bottles being thrown at officers.
‘Defund the police’ activist goes viral after begging for help when everything she owned was stolen in San Francisco: ‘The cops didn’t do s—!’ Jared Downing December 8, 2024 at 4:34 PM