A campaign and larger movement to defund the Chicago Police Department seeded by the Black Abolitionist Network @BlkAbolitionChi
Oct 22, 2020 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
In her budget address, Mayor Lightfoot has once again shown us that she does not defend or value Black lives unless they create profit for the city or maintain so called “law and order.”
Read our full statement here 👇
We won't stop. We won't be ignored until we #defundcpd
Caption for our statement:
1/ Today's budget proposal by the Mayor does nothing to address the decades of physical and economic violence inflicted on Black and Brown communities through police terror and systemic disinvestment.