Chicago Protest Leader on MSNBC Demands ‘Police Be Defunded’

One of the leaders of the Chicago protests said on MSNBC Thursday that one of their main goals was to defund the police department.

“So getting Mayor Rahm Emanuel to resign is definitely not the main goal of the movement right now,” Breanna Champion, leader of the Black Youth Project. “In Chicago, police receive 40% of our city’s budget to remain operational. That is completely unheard of and unacceptable.”

“One of our major demands is that police be defunded and that that money used to fund police be used to fund black futures, and be used to fund our communities and things that we need,” she said.

In the organization’s online manifesto, the group also demands “reparations for chattel slavery, Jim Crow and mass incarceration” and “a guaranteed income for all.”

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[h/t Wash. Free Beacon]
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