To: President Donald Trump, The United States House of Representatives, and The United States Senate
Tell Congress and Pres. Obama: Defund police that continue to kill Black people
Black people and their allies have been boldly advocating for police reform and accountability to end the unjust murders of Black people by police for years, but nothing is changing. We need you to use the power of the federal government to halt police departments that refuse to implement the reforms needed to protect Black lives.
Our criminal justice system is not properly holding police accountable. We must defund police departments that employ officers who are quick to kill and condone practices that do not value Black life. Our nation, politicians and many police are in agreement that police departments need reform, however, no one is ensuring this reform happens -and more and more Black people are getting killed because of it.
Please acknowledge the pain and frustration communities across the nation continue to feel people like Alton Sterling, Philando Castile, Delrawn Smalls, and Alva Braziel are brutally and unjustly murdered.
Will you take action before the next Black person is unjustly murdered by police?
Why is this important?
Four Black deaths in a matter of days, we're in--and have been in--a state of emergency. Within a week, our nation has bore witness to the brutal police induced murders of Alton Sterling, Philando Castile, Delrawn Smalls, and Alva Braziel. Instead of indicting the officers that killed these Black men and reforming the departments that enable them, the federal government continues to pouring millions of dollars into the police departments that employ them.
We can't afford to spend millions of dollars on police departments that will continue killing Black people.
Join us in calling on President Obama and Congress to take executive action to pull all grant funds from any police department that doesn't make reforms to protect Black lives.