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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.”

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.”

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.”

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.

Swathes of police officers in Atlanta, GA, are “walking off the job,” according to multiple reports published Wednesday evening.

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

Bishop Aubrey Shines discussed left-wing paternalism towards blacks while attributing “systemic racism” to the Democrat Party.

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.

In an interview with Politico on Sunday, Chicago Democrat Congressman Bobby Rush attacked Chicago law enforcement.

Skarlatos, the Army veteran who heroically stopped a terrorist from hijacking a train, is now running to flip a key district in Oregon.

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.

Monday on Fox News Channel, “Fox News Sunday,” anchor Chris Wallace said that the “vast majority” of Democrats do not support calls to defund the police.

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.