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Lena Dunham has apologized for the white privilege that has enabled her to achieve Hollywood success at a young age, saying that from now on, she promises to “sit down” and “shut up, unless it’s to advocate for change for Black people.” The Girls star also pushed slavery reparations and defunding the police.

Rep. Alexandria-Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) on Tuesday slammed an agreement to slash $1 billion from the budget of the New York City Police Department (NYPD), declaring the decision is “not a victory” and that “the fight to defund policing continues.”

Morale within the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) is currently at a “record low,” thanks to the ongoing Black Lives Matter protests and the vilification of police by local politicians.

Hungary’s Viktor Orbán has lamented the “firestorm of violence” sweeping Western cities as police are branded “racist” and “humiliated on the streets and in political discourse”.

A retiring New York City Police Department (NYPD) detective says the department’s recent elimination of undercover, plainclothes police officers will “be the demise” of New York City. 

On this week’s broadcast of “Fox News Sunday,” Black Lives Matter chairman Hawk Newsome called for defunding the police so that crime can be treated like a health crisis.

On Friday night,  a group of Black Lives Matter activists began shouting a political script in a Target store in Washington, D.C.

House Democrats blocked a motion on Friday that would require Washington, DC, to eliminate its sanctuary city status if it were to become a state.

Members of Washington State’s Edmonds School Board voted unanimously to end contracts with law enforcement agencies, thereby removing police presence from three schools in the district, deeming officers a “real risk” to students.

Anyone worried about this anti-police madness somehow taking hold need only look at Powderhorn Park, Minnesota, where a bunch of affluent, white leftist women have agreed to not involve the police in property crimes, and that includes getting car-jacked by armed thugs.

Transgender Hollywood star Laverne Cox and Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) pushed for the defunding of the police in a joint appearance Thursday on Watch What Happens Live, during which Sen. Harris said that putting more cops on the streets is “just wrong.”

House Democrats blocked a procedural motion Thursday to condemn the Defund the Police movement and the riots that have emerged after George Floyd’s death.

Permit applications for the Firearm Owners Identification (FOID) card that allows someone to buy a gun in Illinois have surged over 500 percent amid the social unrest and violence currently seen in Chicago and other Democrat-controlled cities.

The Oakland Unified School District abolished its own police force at a school board meeting on Wednesday night, bowing to the wishes of radical left-wing activists and the Black Lives Matter movement.

As Democrats and other leftists push to defund the police, gun stores around the country are witnessing a surge in gun and ammunition purchases. 

Hollywood celebrities, including Queen Latifah, Idris Elba, and Angela Bassett, are demanding that studios cut their ties with police departments, which usually provide security for movie and TV shoots as well as glitzy events like the annual Academy Awards ceremony.

The National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) released a memo Wednesday detailing a path Republicans can use to gain the House majority due to Democrats’ support for socialism and defunding the police.

Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) sat down with the Washington Examiner for an interview on Monday where he discussed the death of George Floyd and the movement to defund police.

Professor Harald Uhlig of the University of Chicago has been reinstated as editor of the Journal of Political Economy after being suspended following attacks by left-wing critics for questioning Black Lives Matter over “defund the police.”

Mayor Libby Schaaf of Oakland, California, told a meeting of Democratic mayors on Tuesday morning that it was necessary not just to “defund the police,” but to “replace the police.”

A new poll has revealed that 94 percent of college democrats support recent pushes to defund the police police. 61 percents of young democrats also believe that rioting and looting are valid forms of protest.

An overwhelming 72 percent of registered voters do not support defunding police, according to poll results published Tuesday.

Binghamton University announced this week that it will decrease funding for its campus police department to comply with recent demands by Black Lives Matter activists. The funding will reportedly be diverted to campus programs that focus on mental health issues. The university will also establish the George Floyd Memorial Scholarship to “support future African American Leaders.”

A majority of Americans oppose defunding the police, and an even greater majority oppose “abolishing” the police, a recently released YouGov poll revealed.

Grammy Award-winning pop star John Legend is doubling down on his calls to defund the police, saying that paying cops and building prisons are “destructive for our society.”

Nearly 300 people gathered to show support for law enforcement officers and their families in downtown Salt Lake City, Utah, Saturday.

Voters remain virtually split on directing funds from local police departments to community programs, a Morning Consult/Politico poll released this week revealed.

A task force on criminal justice reform, charged with shaping Democratic nominee Joe Biden’s public policy agenda and intended to guide the Party’s 2020 platform, is composed of extremist members with radical views.

Hundreds of left-wing celebrity figures, including actress Gabrielle Union and Comedy Central late-night host Trevor Noah, signed onto a statement from the Black Artists for Freedom — “a collective of black workers in the culture industries” — demanding the abolition of police and “the complete dismantling of the racist prison-industrial system” as a means to end the America’s “racist culture.”

Policy responses to the coronavirus outbreak were a “game changer” in border security, explained Customs and Border Protection’s Mark Morgan.

An anti-deportation group affiliated with leftist billionaire George Soros’s Open Society Foundation is one of the groups behind the “defund the police” movement taking place across America.

Police officers and teenagers in Overland Park, Kansas, gathered this week to play basketball and build relationships amid nationwide calls to defund the police.

Philonise Floyd, the brother of George Floyd, the black man who died last month at the hands of Minneapolis police, is asking the United Nations to investigate policing in the United States for racism and “police brutality.”

17-year-old CJ Pearson offered a $10,000 check to the owners of Wilbourn Sisters Designs on Thursday — one of many businesses he is helping to save.

Pop singer Phoebe Bridgers isn’t satisfied with defunding the police. She wants them abolished altogether.

The Philadelphia City Council gave preliminary approval Wednesday to a fiscal year 2021 budget that would cut millions of dollars from police funding.