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“I think we should ultimately abolish [law enforcement]," Cullors said. "What we can do right now is drastically reduce law enforcement's relationship to the community,” #BlackLivesMatter Co-Founder Patrisse Cullors google.com/amp/s/www.news…

People in the U.S. and other countries around the world, she said, need to question why police are considered the first port of call for most emergencies that people face in their communities. #BlackLivesMatter #AbolishThePolice

“...the freedom of mostly white affluent people is predicated on the unfreedom of black people. So, law enforcement is not actually used to keep black people safe. They're used to patrol, occupy, harass, abuse, often hunt and mostly, what we've seen is kill our communities,"

“Policing and incarceration are part of a continuum. The policing is the first response and then incarceration is the last response. And these two systems rely on each other very, very deeply. We have to be working on getting rid of both systems," #BlackLivesMatter

This article compares calls to reform to calls to defund to calls to abolish the police.

And it examines why - especially for Black communities, reform hasn’t worked.

I agree with Patrisse Cullors - enough. google.com/amp/s/time.com… #BlackLivesMatter #AbolishThePolice

Ending police violence will require a “radical shift in policing—not a little bit, not reform, not body cams, not new training,” but rather “a radical shift in the way we think about protecting our communities and public safety.”

#BlackLivesMatter #AbolishThePolice

“People are demanding that we have a bigger conversation about the kind of society that we have that requires so much policing and prisons,” Vitale says. “And trying to begin a conversation about what a world without that would look like.” #BlackLivesMatter #AbolishThePolice