“Our police have been letting us live in peace, and we want to make sure we don’t have any bad actors in there,” Trump said, adding that he believes “99 percent” of officers are “great people. Los Angeles Police Department commander Cory Palka stands among several destroyed police cars in Los Angeles, Calif., on May 30, 2020. The president’s remarks about miscreants on the force come after weeks of protests, some of which have resulted in violent riots, following the police-custody death of George Floyd. All officers involved in Floyd’s death have been arrested and charged with crimes. The incident has sparked outrage, which has fueled the movement to overhaul police procedures, including limiting legal protections for police, creating a national database of excessive-force encounters, and banning the use of chokeholds. (Darnella Frazier via AP)Ī rallying cry of some protesters and proponents of police reform is to “defund the police,” a multi-layered movement that ranges from calls to adjust police budgets to fund the establishment of complementary community-based solutions, to extreme proposals to disband police departments entirely.Īctivist group MPD150 says on its website that it is gradually “working towards a police-free Minneapolis”, describing the concept as being about “strategically reallocating resources, funding, and responsibility away from police and toward community-based models of safety, support, and prevention.” Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin kneels on the neck of George Floyd, a handcuffed man who was pleading that he could not breathe, in Minneapolis, Minn., on May 25, 2020. Karen Bass (D-Calif.), chairwoman of the Congressional Black Caucus, said part of the movement is really about how money is spent. “Now, I don’t believe that you should disband police departments,” she said in an interview with CNN.
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