Posted on 07/12/2016 3:29:41 PM PDT by drewh
Actor Mark Ruffalo has called on President Obama to sign an executive order divesting federal funds from “bad cops” and police departments in the wake of the shooting deaths of two African-American men and five Dallas police officers earlier this month. The 48-year-old Avengers star posted a link to a petition on his Twitter page on Monday.
The petition linked to by the actor calls on Congress and the Obama administration to cut federal funding for police departments nationwide.
“Congress and the Obama administration are spending millions of dollars every year giving grants to the same police departments that are killing and over-incarcerating Black people — and it has to stop,” the petition reads.
“Our criminal justice system is not properly holding police accountable,” it continues. “We must defund police departments that employee [sic] 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.”
Ruffalo’s tweet was met with derision by many of his followers on the social media service. On Tuesday, the actor and progressive activist followed up with another tweet in support of the Black Lives Matter movement.
Ruffalo has previously expressed support for Black Lives Matter.
In January, the actor said that he hoped some black celebrities’ decisions to boycott the Academy Awards over a lack of diversity would allow his peers in Hollywood to “open their hearts” to the movement.
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Hulk Dumb.
Odds that he’s never been to a minority neighborhood?
After watching Obama’s first organized, pre-planned BLM movement in Ferguson, it become clear to me one of his Alinsyite goals was Federal control over all local police departments. It started with the threat of broad DOJ “civil rights” investigations and “training.”
We are now in phase 2
That green Hulk makeup must have a little too much arsenic and lead in it.
Pathetic moron. We don’t have a dictatorship, you bat-crap crazy leftist loon! As much as you would like to have one.
What is a ‘Mark Ruffalo’?
We really need to rescale IQ so that we do not need negative numbers to rate actors.
Let them “disband” the police departments, then they might find out what the “militia” means in the 2nd Amendment.
He was the #1 azz kisser for Bernie, strange no tweets today
This guy has the IQ of a banana slug.
He is also only 5'8". For an actor, that's too short, unless he's willing take dweeb parts.
Mark Ruffalo?
Perhaps I’m culturally deprived or something, but I don’t even know who that sick bastard is.
But if someone would point him out, I’d be sure to p*ss on him if I should see him running down the street on fire.
I’m all in favor of removing ALL Federal funding from local public safety.
Though not for the inane reasons Ruffalo proposes.
He looks like a fayg.
http://www.celebritynetworth.com/richest-celebrities/actors/mark-ruffalo-net-worth/
worth $20,000,000
he can afford private security.
we cannot.
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