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We're hopeful that the people will stay engaged and that we can hold our elected officials accountable, and remind them that just because we're moving beyond what people are calling the George Floyd moment that it's not a moment, it's a movement, and we need to have police defunded and invest those dollars into things that actually make communities safe.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
We have fallen below 9,500 officers. This budget is going to allow us to start hiring, to start putting cops through the academy and back on the streets to get back to the 9,750 officers. So we'll still have, and we will still shoulder, the cutbacks that were placed on us a year ago. we're hopeful that the people will stay engaged and that we can hold our elected officials accountable, and remind them that just because we're moving beyond what people are calling the George Floyd moment that it's not a moment, it's a movement, and we need to have police defunded and invest those dollars into things that actually make communities safe.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
And so, no matter who occupies the office, there's going to be a problem with the office itself.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
I remember when my parents' home was broken into and they put bars on the window.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
She doesn't get to hide just because she lives out in kind of suburbia.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
We've been standing in front of Jackie Lacey office, demanding that Jackie Lacey meet with us for two and a half years and Jackie Lacey refused to come out, what alternative is there ?
Found on CNN 4 years ago
Unless Jackie Lacey were willing to bring charges in all 609 cases of those who were killed by police, yeah, it's too late, jackie Lacey has proven over the last seven years who Jackie Lacey is.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
People don't realize in the seventies and eighties how dangerous it was in Los Angeles, i remember when( my parents) used to complain that police don't care about our neighborhood.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
As a Black woman, I would rather be celebrating other Black women, and I do, my allegiance is to Black people, not to an individual Black person who wouldn't mind selling us out.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
We wanted to be open to thinking about how can we allow her to be a more progressive district attorney and act in the interests of Black people as a whole, when you have somebody who is Black, it doesn't always mean they carry the interests of all Black people.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
We are saying defund the police, we're also saying reimagine public safety.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
The world is speaking right now, city Council members're saying we don't want a system of policing that puts targets on the backs of Black people especially, but also is a regular assailant and traumatizer of our entire community.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
We've attempted to go to her office. She has refused to engage the public, i do not believe it is fair or right for protesters to show up at the homes of people who dedicate their lives to public service.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
Her husband met us at the door with a gun, we heard him cock it, he pointed the gun as he opened the door and then when he saw me, he pointed the gun directly at my chest.
Found on FOX News 4 years ago
It's still true what we've been saying, which is we're less concerned about the racial make-up of police forces than we are kind of the institutional racism carried out by police, regardless of race.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
With sustained pressure there, we can make sure there is a response, we know another murder is going to happen.
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
The mayor has neglected, disrespected and abused the black community for far too long.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
We can't have this debate over the flag blind people to the larger struggle.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
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