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The Los Angeles City Council’s Budget and Finance Committee unanimously voted to submit proposed police funding cuts to the City Council on Tuesday.

Ex-NFL great Herschel Walker has an intriguing suggestion for those supporting the left’s new campaign of defunding the nation’s police forces.

A protest in downtown Los Angeles on Tuesday demanded that the Los Angeles School Police Department, which protects public schools from gang violence and mass shootings, be abolished.

In a Tuesday appearance on Fox News Channel’s “America’s Newsroom,” Sen. Rick Scott (R-FL) slammed the push to “defund” police departments across the country following George Floyd’s death while in Minneapolis police custody.

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Activists gathered in front of Atlanta’s City Hall on Monday, challenging leadership to “put your money where your mouth is” and “defund the police” following the officer-involved shooting death of Rayshard Brooks, who was killed in a Wendy’s parking lot on Friday evening after a confrontation with police officers.

Harvard University Professor Roland Fryer argued this week that defunding the police “could cost thousands of Black lives.” Leftist activists around the nation have called on their local governments to divert funding away from their police forces.

Matt Mowers, a former Donald Trump administration official and New Hampshire first congressional district Republican candidate, told Breitbart News Saturday that, unlike Rep. Chris Pappas (D-NH), we need to “defend the police, not defund the police.”

Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union,” Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) said her support on Minneapolis City Council voting to defund the police is because “you can’t really reform a department that is rotten to the root.”

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Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union,” Majority Whip Jim Clyburn (D-SC) said he feared police now more than he did growing up in the segregated South.

A majority of truckers are vowing to halt deliveries to cities that defund or disband their police departments, according to a recent poll.

Young Americans in Miami, Florida, were interviewed this week about the recent calls to “defund the police.” Some of those interviewed suggested that America would be a safer place with less police because they “just don’t think it’s fair how they are treating people.”

Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union,” Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) said the calls to defund the police is not a concern of President Donald Trump because it is a state issue.

Demonstrators — both Black Lives Matter protesters and LGBT pride activists — congregated outside of Mayor Muriel Bowser’s (D) home in Washington, DC, on Saturday, holding signs, chanting, and twerking in front of cops.

On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks criticized the “defund the police” slogan because people actually want more police, but they do want policing to be reformed. Brooks said that “defund the police” is “just a terrible slogan. It’s

Trayvon Martin’s mother said recently that she does not support efforts to reduce law enforcement resources amid calls to defund the police.

On Friday’s broadcast of HBO’s “Real Time,” host Bill Maher said that while it is a good idea to divert police funding to community services, police departments shouldn’t be defunded completely, and sharply criticized the “defund the police” slogan as

The nationwide push led by Black Lives Matter to defund the police is part of a larger radical agenda spelled out on the group’s own manifesto.

A restaurant in Port Richey, Florida, promised Thursday to be a place of refuge for law enforcement officers amid calls to defund the police.

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), when asked what an America with “defunded police” looks like, stated that it “looks like a suburb.”

Rep. Matt Cartwright (D-PA) said during a town hall on Thursday that he would “absolutely” be open to defunding local Pennsylvania police departments.

A new poll released Friday showed that 55% of Democrats approve of calls by the Black Lives Matter movement to “defund the police” — though 64% of the country as a whole opposes the idea.

“You can’t defund the police,” said eight-time Mr. Olympia and retired police officer Ronnie Coleman on in an interview with Joe Rogan.

E-commerce giant Amazon has reportedly banned police agencies from using its facial recognition technology for one year in response to growing calls to sever ties with U.S. police departments.

Political and corporate support for Black Lives Matter has become ubiquitous over the past week. Everyone’s email inbox is bulging with messages of support from corporate sponsors, every website is covered with Black Lives Matter logos, and the group has benefited from numerous fundraisers and charity sales. Many people might not realize that Black Lives Matter is a distinct political organization, not just a slogan or social media hashtag, and it has both enormous funding and a wide-ranging political agenda.

Chirlane McCray, the wife of New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio (D), said in a Tuesday interview that abolishing the NYPD would be “nirvana” and “a utopia” as her husband vows to cut the police force’s budget.

Former Federal Reserve chair Janet L. Yellen told the New York Times on Wednesday that she backs an effort to have Harald Uhlig fired as editor of a prestigious economic journal because he opposes “defund the police.”

Pastor Darrell Scott on Wednesday gave a scathing rebuke of leftists’ calls to “defund the police” in the wake of George Floyd’s killing, denouncing the push as an “unwise” and “irresponsible” effort that can result in long-term damage to American society.

Officials announced on Wednesday that former U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch would advise New York Attorney General Letitia James during the investigation into the police response during recent protests.

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) blocked a measure sponsored by Sens. Ted Cruz (R-TX) and Tom Cotton (R-AR) to condemn Democrat measures to defund police departments across the country.

In many Democrat-led cities the calls to defund police will add to already increasing crime rates, the Wall Street Journal said.

Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer told The Root on Tuesday that she supports “the spirit” of defunding police departments, before she clarified to say she didn’t.

Wednesday on “MSNBC Live,” Rep. James Clyburn (D-SC) pushed back against the calls from those in his party to defund police departments across the nation in the wake of George Floyd’s death while in Minneapolis police custody.

A British sociology professor has outlined the areas of policing that he believes the government should “immediately” defund, with the ultimate goal of completely eliminating law enforcement in the United Kingdom.

Representative Dan Crenshaw (R-TX) on Wednesday weighed in on the growing calls to defund police departments in response to George Floyd’s death while in Minneapolis police custody.