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Wednesday on CNN’s “Anderson Cooper 360,” movie mogul and actor Tyler Perry expressed his concerns over the so-called “Defund Police” protests around the country.

Mayor of Oakland Libby Schaaf criticized violent Black Lives Matter demonstrations on Monday, issuing a statement complaining that rioters are helping President Donald Trump’s reelection campaign.

Hollywood celebrities are renewing their calls to defund police departments around the country by throwing their support behind a new petition from the Movement 4 Black Lives that is demanding an “end to police terror.”

Democrats have circulated a draft of their proposed 2020 platform. In its present form, it would be the most left-wing platform in the history of U.S. presidential politics.

NYC officials estimate it will take weeks to clean up the grafitti, human waste, and debris left behind by the Occupy City Hall protesters.

Creed star Michael B. Jordan is demanding that Hollywood studios “divest from the police” and prove their support for the Black Lives Matter movement by pouring money into “anti-racist” content.

Fact check -CLAIM: Joe Biden claims that it’s President Donald Trump who wants to “defund the police.” VERDICT: FALSE.

Appearing Tuesday on ABC 15, former Vice President Joe Biden attempted to argue that President Donald Trump is in favor of defunding law enforcement across the United States. 

Calls to “defund the police” appeared to come out of nowhere to the average American — fueled by the anger over the death of George Floyd — however, such demands have been around for nearly a decade, if not longer.

Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf’s (D) house was found vandalized early Tuesday morning with messages supportive of the “defund the police” movement, prompting an investigation by Oakland Police Department detectives.

New Hampshire first congressional district Republican candidate Matt Mowers slammed Rep. Chris Pappas (D-NH) on Tuesday after the New Hampshire Democrat called to eliminate police departments’ qualified immunity protection.

Joe Biden vice presidential prospect and California Congresswoman Karen Bass nodded in approval as Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison aimed to make the left’s “Defund the Police” message more palatable.

PragerU has launched a new campaign called “Black the Blue”  this week, encouraging Americans to support their local police officers. Breitbart News Editor-in-Chief Alex Marlow discussed the campaign in a video Monday, thanking police officers “on behalf of Breitbart Nation” for “doing the hard work that is often so thankless.”

Community members in Atlantic Beach, Florida, are helping a policeman recover after he was beaten unconscious Thursday.

A Brooklyn, New York, man is facing charges for allegedly tampering with a New York Police Department (NYPD) van’s brakes.

Fact check – CLAIM: Joe Biden doesn’t want to defund the police, just redirect police funding to other uses. VERDICT: Mostly false. They mean the same thing.

Sara Pearl, a recently-hired video producer for Joe Biden’s White House campaign, called law enforcement officers worse than “pigs” and expressed support for the “defund the police” movement before she joined the campaign.

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio (D) on Thursday ramped up his attacks on The Sergeants Benevolent Association (SBA), the largest New York Police Department (NYPD) union, accusing them of “fomenting hatred.”

The Berkely City Council voted for radical changes in policing, including a 50 percent budget cut and ending police traffic stops.

Americans are seeking homes outside of the cities in the aftermath of riots, looting, police defunding campaigns, resurgent crime, and months-long lockdowns

The Washington Post fact-checker has attempted to defend Vice President Joe Biden from charges that he wants to “defund the police” by explaining that spending less money on the police does not actually mean “defunding” them.

“We’re going to straighten things out,” Trump said, describing “out of control cities” that were “like war zones.”

Black voters view former Vice President Joe Biden as central to political and social problems they perceive, said Rev. Darrell Scott.

Customers looking to purchase NBA jerseys with approved custom slogans on the back have found that the NBA store endorses anti-cop slogans, but “Free Hong Kong” was forbidden.

The Los Angeles teachers’ union suggests schools could free up funds needed to reopen amid the coronavirus pandemic if police are defunded.

Protesters have taken to the streets Monday to demonstrate against the relocation of Pittsburgh Police’s Zone 5 station. 

Nick Freitas told Breitbart News Saturday that Rep. Abigail Spanberger (D-VA) abandoned Virginia’s police amid the leftist movement to defund the police. 

Crowdfunding platform Kickstarter added a link at the top of its website directing users to a Black Lives Matter website — operated by ActBlue Charities — calling for “a national defunding of police” and soliciting donations.

A veto-proof majority of the Seattle City Council backed a proposal Thursday to defund the Seattle Police Department by 50% — including a proposal to remove 911 dispatchers from police control and to “imagine life beyond policing.”

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), who just won her primary with 72.5 percent of the vote, said Thursday that public safety will require “experimentation” after police departments are defunded.

Only 18 percent of Americans believe that those who are calling to “defund the police” actually want to eliminate police departments, a Monmouth Poll released Wednesday revealed.

Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) on Wednesday seemingly endorsed fellow “Squad” member Rep. Ilhan Omar’s (D-MN) radical call for ‘dismantling the whole system” in the United States. 

Presumptive Democrat presidential nominee Joe Biden said law enforcement “become the enemy” when using “surplus military equipment” and operating an invading military in American neighborhoods, offering his comments in a Wednesday-published interview with Ady Barkan for NowThis News.

Far-left “Squad” members Reps. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) and Ayanna Pressley (D-MA) partnered with the coalition Movement for Black Lives in promoting a bill filled with radical proposals, including defunding the police, abolishing ICE, eliminating state gang databases, establishing a commission to design reparations, and developing curriculums that “examine the political, economic, and social impacts of colonialism, genocide against indigenous people, and slavery.”

Hollywood celebrities are enthusiastically showing their support for the “Breathe Act,” the new legislation introduced Tuesday by the Movement 4 Black Lives that seeks to defund police departments around the country and to redirect taxpayer dollars to community safety initiatives.

At least six people were shot, one fatally, overnight in Minneapolis, Minnesota.