INSANITY John Legend, Natalie Portman Other Celebs Sign Letter to Defund Police

[Dennis Olson]

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John Legend, Natalie Portman Other Celebs Sign Letter to Defund Police
Warner Todd Huston
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Singers John Legend and Lizzo, and actresses Natalie Portman and Taraji P. Henson are among the Hollywood celebrities who’ve signed a letter pushing the defunding all police departments in the wake of the police involved death of Minneapolis man George Floyd.

The open letter claims that in 2017, $194 billion was spent on the police by America’s various governments even as police have “continued profiling, harassment, terror and killing of Black communities.”

Black communities are living in persistent fear of being killed by state authorities like police, immigration agents, or even white vigilantes who are emboldened by state actors. According to the Urban Institute, in 1977, state and local governments spent $60 billion on police and corrections. In 2017, they spent $194 billion. A 220 percent increase. Despite continued profiling, harassment, terror and killing of Black communities, local and federal decision-makers continue to invest in the police, which leaves Black people vulnerable and our communities no safer.

The letter — which was also signed by Common, Jane Fonda, America Ferrera, Brie Larson, ACLU executive director Anthony Romero — goes on to insist that the money spent on police would be better spent on “building healthy communities,” or to go “to the health of our elders and children, to neighborhood infrastructure, to education, to childcare, to support a vibrant Black future.”

The letter was initially started by the organization going by the name Movement 4 Black Lives, along with Black Lives Matter co-founder Patrisse Cullors.

In an interview with Variety, Cullors spoke of the Blackout Tuesday effort saying, “We’re looking at all the black musicians who are showing up and standing up — like Lizzo, who I just had a phone call with yesterday.”

“She’s excited about joining, and [last week] she was up in Minneapolis protesting outside the fourth [police] precinct,” the activist added. “But we need every single musician — black, white, Asian, whoever — to show up right now. We’re not going to change what’s happening between law enforcement and black people until everybody shows up to change it.”

The letter comes as the country is coming to grips with a week mass looting, vandalism, carnage, and killings of police and innocence.

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[TheSearcher]

Okay, that's just... I can't... what?

 

[NoMoreLibs]

I totally agree. Defund all of them. We'll start in their towns and county's. After a few months, no more state po po funding for them either. Of course, no cops, don't need courts, defund them too, again, in their 'hood.

See how long that lasts.

 

[Matt]

Hell yeah....let's do this..... cops don't keep me or mine safe anyway...they are simply a deterrent to me defending my family and my home.

 

[SSTemplar]

As bad as the police are those people really won't like what comes after.

 

[Matt]

As bad as the police are those people really won't like what comes after.

No they won't and you will never get them to understand that until it's their head getting caved in

 

[Dozdoats]

Oh look, celebrity opinion. Be careful not to step in it ....

 

[Fake Shemp]

More proof that these twisted f*cks really are more dangerous than the criminals.

 

[et2]

Just like Obama ... their chocolate Messiah did with our military. Of course they all have their body guards and security details. How liberating of them.

Freaks

 

[Cacheman]

 

[et2]

If there’s going to be lawlessness... it will bite them in their asses ... bigly. Guarantee these morons will be in for a shit storm coming for them. After all I heard liberal commies eat the rich.

 

[Marthanoir]

So these celebs who won't go anywhere without a couple of close-protection officers want to defund the police
Sure why not scrap the police altogether, we can all live in peace and harmony like the happy residents of Mogadishu

 

[Blacknarwhal]

I totally agree. Defund all of them. We'll start in their towns and county's. After a few months, no more state po po funding for them either. Of course, no cops, don't need courts, defund them too, again, in their 'hood.

See how long that lasts.

Put in a federal-level Stand Your Ground law and universal Castle Doctrine and your need for police falls through the floor.

 

[chumly2071]

Remind them of this next time they call for the police to come deal with someone being a little too aggressive of a fan...

 

[Blacknarwhal]

Heywood Banks, on the key to a civil society: You Never Know (Who's Got a Gun) 3:29

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Jq1xDxqFuI

 

[jazzy]

i say give them what they want, defund the police in THEIR town / cities then pass out their address and maps to antifa and tell the cops to sit that one out.
every time the leftys scream about this or that then give them what they want but on Their doorstep.

just a bunch of provledged bubble-babbies who live in their towers and think they are smarter than us peons.

 

[Housecarl]

I can just see where this bandwagon is going to carry them in a couple of months...Of course they'll blame their personal assistant who handles their personal media for over stepping their bounds....

 

[Grouchy Granny]

And here's my reply to them

Hope the next time some "fan" breaks down their lovely gate they call 911 and no one answers because they get a recorded message that the PD has been "defunded".

 

[NoDandy]

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Looks like Obama & Hillary laying on the ground.

 

[Kathy in FL]

Well I guess that means that all citizens are then free to follow their own justice. Because if that isn't true then you are going to militarize things and I can guarantee criminals aren't going to find much tolerance there.

I have yet to see anything more stupid than a celebrity that opens its mouth and gives its own personal opinion.

 

[20Gauge]

I totally agree. Defund all of them. We'll start in their towns and county's. After a few months, no more state po po funding for them either. Of course, no cops, don't need courts, defund them too, again, in their 'hood.

See how long that lasts.

and no hired protection. You do it yourself.

Too many of these people hide behind private gates with hired security either directly for themselves or by the community they live in. Get rid of both and I am will to take my chances. Remember as you are in California, only one box of ammo per month if you can pass the background check. No knives over 3 inches either. That is the law.

 

[Kathy in FL]

and no hired protection. You do it yourself.

Too many of these people hide behind private gates with hired security either directly for themselves or by the community they live in. Get rid of both and I am will to take my chances. Remember as you are in California, only one box of ammo per month if you can pass the background check. No knives over 3 inches either. That is the law.

No cops, no private security because you know 'cause that would be unfair. And besides if they don't need cops then why should they need any security? Because needing security means your racist.

Do they consider themselves special or something? They do not get what the rest of us can't have. [yes, snark is a higher form of communication indeed]

 

[Intestinal Fortitude]

and they are very very very well protected by private security

 

[ShadowMan]

Every law enforcement agency within fifty miles of these nimrods should make sure that anyone that signs that document has their phone number blocked and address scrubbed from the 911 computer system.

"John Legend? Who is that? Where are you? Sorry, you're not in our system and not in our jurisdiction, you'll have to try elsewhere.....CLICK!"

 

[Faroe]

Natalie used to be so pretty.
What the Hell happened?

 

[Dobbin]

Every law enforcement agency within fifty miles of these nimrods should make sure that anyone that signs that document has their phone number blocked and address scrubbed from the 911 computer system.

"John Legend? Who is that? Where are you? Sorry, you're not in our system and not in our jurisdiction, you'll have to try elsewhere.....CLICK!"

It doesn't even have to be as blatant as that.

"Your address? We'll send someone out."

Click - phone hanging up.

"Who was that?"

"A crank call - let's go get dinner."

Dobbin

 

[33dInd]

As bad as SOME police are those people really won't like what comes after.

Fixed that broad brush for ya

 

[Select]

Natalie used to be so pretty.
What the Hell happened?

exposed her thoughts!

 

[Doomer Doug]

It's a done deal and they don't get it.
First, the lockdown is going to cut funds available by ? which will mean first responders will have major budget cuts. Second, the first responders are watching and seeing how they are cannon fodder, with no backup at all, so they will quit as fast as they can. The defunding is already underway. The rich will still have their own private security until they can't pay for it, when they will have zero. By this time next year one half of ALL police will either have quit, or been fired/laid off or joined elite private security. The types celebrities need won't be working for $15 an hour.

 

[raven]

I guess I am going to at least try to repeat this until you get it, he said is a tired voice

"They want to abolish the local police and Sheriffs and create a national, militarized, deep state, police force"

 

[Jubilee on Earth]

Natalie used to be so pretty.
What the Hell happened?

Veganism. She became a vegan. Seriously.