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.
Ruffalos 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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Try it out by defunding police where he lives.
I wonder what these folks will do once there are no police, and they get robbed, mugged or raped
Revenue sharing was one of the many bad gifts of faux conservative president Richard M. Nixon. Add the EPA and OSHA to that list as well as taking the US off the gold standard.
One of the best reforms for a return of fiscal sanity as well as return to federalism would be to end all federal grants to localities and states. This would reduce federal spending and allow the people in the states to decide if they want the services and programs the federal government formerly funded. Entire departments could be eliminated including Labor, HUD, much of HHS, Commerce, OSHA, much of the EPA, Education, Agriculture, much of Interior, Homeland Security, much of Justice.
According to his logic?
If we had NO MILITARY, there wouldn’t be any more wars.
Never heard of him.
Did you know there are adult coloring books, and they are high in the selling list of books?
Amen
"...Odds that he's never been to a minority neighborhood?..."
It’s certainly easy to crack on this silly schmuck and his so obvious hypocrisy. But...give it a second look.
I’m not sure I disagree with the notion of taking federal funds out of local law enforcement coffers. Seems to me that local LE should be funded locally; much like local schools should be funded locally, etc.
After all is said and done, the best government is local, always. The insidious usurpation of local control that has developed out of (so-called) Federal monies being sent back to local entities under the guise of block grants, grants in kind, etc., is nothing more than continued FedGov meddling in things beyond their right and proper Constitutional authority.
If the local populace believes they should be protected by MRAP’s, they should fund them.
If the local authorities need new equipment, they should make the case to their protected constituency, sway local public opinion and move forward.
The largesse raining down from DC (using taxpayer funds) serves to cultivate local obedience to nationalist pogroms.
As a former small-town LEO, and mayor, I stood by this notion then, and I see no reason to change that opinion at this time.
New movie out. Not a smart move. I knew he was brain dead but.....
I could see the positive in that.
Mark your a drooling slobbery mess!
Now you’ve just proven to every thinking person that you
truly are dumber than dirt.
He’s been yapping like this for years. Happy to see him take it up a notch, I’m hoping idiots can catch on and repel this dimwit.
What an idiot. Truly.
“We are now in phase 2”
Phase 2 of what?
I don’t know where his primary residence is, but, he has a home along the Delaware River in Sullivan County NY and has become the darling of the left in this community. He is outspoken on local environmental issues (fracking ect.) He was invited to go coyote hunting with some of the local boys a while back but never responded to the invitation. lol. Just another celebrity dipshit.
Not that I watch his movies anyway but his name got just added to my do not watch list
Just when I think I can’t loathe him any more, he opens his mouth again.
Who?
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