Column: Pandering Pritzker Should Keep Quiet And Listen To Black Voices – Patch Chicago

Mark Konkol: "The governor told reporters that protesters' call to defund police was 'a poor use of words to describe what many people really want.'...The governor's comments aren't just patronizing. They're wrong."
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debtsor
6 years ago

“The call to defund police isn’t just about police reform. It’s a demand for government to build up black communities devastated by generations of disinvestment and neglect rather than spending billions on a law enforcement system modeled after slave patrols that have been shown to racially profile, brutalize and murder African Americans.”   First of all, this is nonsense. The word Sheriff comes from the English word Shire, as in the Sheriff of the Shire who handled criminal disputes on behalf of the Lord. The word Police comes from the Greek ‘polis’ which means ‘city’. Law enforcement today is not… Read more »

Last edited 6 years ago by debtsor
Fed up neighbor
6 years ago

Really, this is a popularity contest for this man. Like me please and I will lie to your face.

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