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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.
Oct 20, 2020 14 tweets 11 min read
Tune into instagram RIGHT NOW to hear @Damon_AF and @BellaBahhs talk about the fight to #TakeBacktheBudget, and more about abolitionist campaign to #DefundCPD. We'll be live tweeting it here.
instagram.com/defundCPD "Even the Declaration of Independence states that if a government is destructive of your right as a citizen.. it's your duty to abolish it." @BellaBahhs #DefundCPD #TakeBacktheBudget