FILE - In this May 31, 2020, file photo, demonstrators kneel in a moment of silence outside the Long Beach Police Department in Long Beach during a protest over the death of George Floyd. Proposed federal legislation that would radically transform the nation's criminal justice system through such changes as eliminating agencies like the Drug Enforcement Administration and the use of federal surveillance technology is set to be unveiled Tuesday, July 7, by the Movement for Black Lives.
“This moment is a watershed moment. I think this moment calls for structural change and transformative change in ways that we haven’t seen in a very long time. We see this opportunity to push for the BREATHE Act as a part of what we’re calling the modern-day civil rights act.” University of Michigan professor and criminal justice expert Heather Ann Thompson acknowledged the uphill battle, but noted that that the legislation is being introduced at a highly opportune time.
The other sections lay out a detailed plan to achieve an equitable future, calling for sweeping changes that would eliminate federal programs and agencies “used to finance and expand” the U.S. criminal-legal system. It would establish the Neighborhood Demilitarization Program, which would collect and destroy all equipment like military-grade armored vehicles and weapons in the hands of local, state, and federal law enforcement agencies by 2022.
Cullors said she is hopeful the bill will gain support and build upon the change the movement has produced since it first began seven years.
BLM is a racist organization. AllLivesMatter
Because we don't respond to terrorists, we lock them up!
The reason no one in congress introduced it is because it defies logic.
I can’t wait for the first Dems to sign on as sponsors of this kind of legislation. Let’s start calling people’s bluffs.
I dont know who this group is if it's true they are trying to fail at reform. The first priority for everyone involved on every level should be ACCOUNTABILITY on every level of law enforcement. Not pie in the sky abolishing major federal agencies. Make them ALL ACCOUNTABLE FIRST
Stupid, why are you even publishing this garbage.
Who will stop the crack pandemic in the black communities.
stands for absolutely politicized! This tweet is the dumbest tweet ever. Also BLM is a Marxist racist violent organization! Why do you ignore this truth!
The 'war on drugs' and the DEA do need a good overhaul. However, eliminating large federal agencies and defunding police seems short sighted and reckless. What is the end objective? Review, discuss, and overhaul rather than sweeping changes w/ little thought to risk (No?)
So, they want have licenses to commit crimes? they want drugs available everywhere just like alcohol? Law & Order!
The BLM movement has a black male in jail on a $1.2 million bail for a crime that bail regularly is $200k.
Well they killed an 8 year old black girl over the weekend. No remorse, no statements, no call for actions to stop the violence.
Distraction please. Anything to change the conversation from failed government in Atlanta, Baltimore, Chicago etc.
Doesn't matter what BLM want anyways these people could care less about anyone they are the reason we are seeing these giant spikes in covid-19.
Yes, let the criminals dictate reform. Genius.
Eliminate the DEA? Are there insufficient drugs getting into the hands and bodies of Americans? What ethnic and socioeconomic groups would be hurt the most by such a move? Lemme guess, the same ones calling for this action.
1/5 “...divest federal resources from incarceration and policing”
Dumb Blm fools it's not the laws that get blacks, it's the prosecutors that don't care about your innocents it's about them winning the case. Black has shifty lawyers telling them to take a shitty deal even though they're innocent. Fight for change stop this behavior
Do they plan to introduce Marxism?
Listen to all the right wing nonsense. Id laugh if it wasnt so sad.
The thing that everyone is afraid to say: If the DEA is eliminated and drugs are made legal within 6 months, assaults, theft and murder will skyrocket among the black population. 10% of all blacks will have psychosis/mental illness from getting too high. Only racists want that.
'Black Lives Matter is a Marxist organization with almost no interest in addressing racism, or encouraging racial reconciliation, or even justice reform. Its sole focus is the overthrow of the American Republic for a Marxist alternative.'
I just saw a video of a drive by in New York. They shot the man as he was holding his six years old daughter hand, crossing the street. Tell me about how any of this legislation is going to change the cold hearts of people who have no self respect, thus no respect for anything?
Your not doing yourself any favors. Open up real dialogue, be men, and stop acting like thugs.
because its just stupidity.
blacks want drugs?
Sounds like a bunch of criminals want to make it easier being criminals
The Trump campaign thanks you for your contribution in kind. The crazier you act, the more you repulse Middel America.
Anything to help the criminals. Saw a similar story in Canada. Seems they seek to also eliminate jails. Get prepared to defend yourself. Think the wild west was wild? Watch what happens if these morons get their way.
Nobody who isn't an actual Maoist revolutionary who has read what's in this bill will support it.
Relaxing laws is not the answer. Getting rid of bad cops and hiring good cops is.
Lol. Get rid of the DEA? This measure may now make it past the steps.
LOVE to see BLM go after the DEA... the crooked “war on drugs” is the most disastrous public policy ever created. I don’t agree with all of the BLM platform by any means but 110% support for this.
Nice. Because black families deserve to have their fentanyl and other deadly drugs. SMDH. LiberalismIsAMentalDisorder
So many of these items are sophomoric in their utopia dreams. Eliminating the DEA will do nothing but further the country's drug epidemic that in 2018 alone, and just speaking on opioids death exclusively, caused approx. 47,000 in the USA. No one talks about THAT epidemic.
The United States does not negotiate with terrorist. In the past month that is exactly what BLM has proven to be.
Karen the Cowardly Racist Wont Say it Again!!
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