Posted on 04/25/2026 4:45:02 AM PDT by Libloather
A ratbag group of cop-hating Black Lives Matters activists were handed the floor at City Hall as they launched a campaign to block extra funding to hire more police in Los Angeles.
Everyday Angelenos were left frustrated as they were locked out of the first public budget hearing — while lefty activists led by Black Lives Matter–Los Angeles and People’s Budget LA were given 20 minutes to air their radical views.
At stake is the city’s $14.9 billion budget, the single most consequential decision City Hall makes each year.
The group, led Friday by Melina Abdullah, demanded the council shift funding from policing and into community-based social services.
They are the same activists previously documented by The California Post shutting down public meetings.
They are furious about Karen Bass’s proposal to hire 510 police officers – despite critics saying all she is doing is replacing departing staff, and highlighting the department’s ongoing staffing crisis.
Abdullah claimed her coalition, formed in 2020, wanted a “people’s budget” shaped by community input, sharply reducing police funding and redirecting billions toward housing, mental health care, and social services.
Inside the chamber, officers assigned to secure the room were required to stand watch as the activist presentation, and hours of public comment that followed, much of it calling for cutting or eliminating police.
The Los Angeles Police Protective League blasted the decision to have them lead the budget proceedings.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
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More Negro money... Thats worked for 60 years
They ALL need to move to Cuba, they would LOVE the way the budget is spent in Havana..... I bet we could do a Go Fund Me Page and get money needed to ship them out tomorrow... GO KAREN BASS.. YOU created this mess, now let us get on with the task of fixing it.
Fine, do what they say Karen.
The rest would just be more democrat laundries.
There will be no funding for mental health because they don’t want people locked away and that’s all you can do to stop the crazies.
The problem with mental care is, that people have to agree for treatment on their own.
It is very hard to lock up mentally sick people against their will.
And most sickos on the streets like what they are doing!
That’s why throwing money on mental treatments does not change a thing!
Wants more free stuff and crime , LOL
Get with the program!!! Crime is cool! it is the only way to happiness.
Get with the program!!! Crime is cool! it is the only way to happiness.
“...Crime is cool! it is the only way to happiness...”
A really nice, well-place, supurb-quality, hi-speed Pb injection would probably make em feel real nice and fuzzy too!!! Spit..
An event Hitlers Brown Shirts would be proud up - political success by public intimidation.
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