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Report: Four Philly Council Members Sought Police Budget Cuts During Week of Looting, Rioting
Breitbart ^ | 10/02/2020 | Katherine Rodriguez

Posted on 11/02/2020 8:11:07 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27

Four freshman city council members in Philadelphia vowed to seek budget cuts to the city police department during a week where more than 200 stores were looted in connection with the shooting death of Walter Wallace Jr.

The four council members — Isaiah Thomas, Katherine Gilmore Richardson, Jamie Gauthier, and Kendra Brooks — pledged their support for cutting funding to the police during an online call with political activists in the area, the Philadelphia Inquirer reported.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Government
KEYWORDS: budget; philadelphia; police; rioting
I am guess these freshman council members are in the same mold as AOC.
1 posted on 11/02/2020 8:11:07 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27
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To: ChicagoConservative27

This will stop ONLY when these types of city members fear for their lives.

Really.


2 posted on 11/02/2020 8:14:54 AM PST by Da Coyote
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To: fatima; Fresh Wind; st.eqed; xsmommy; House Atreides; Nowhere Man; PaulZe; brityank; Physicist; ...

Pennsylvania Ping!

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3 posted on 11/02/2020 8:22:07 AM PST by lightman (I am a binary Trinitarian. Deal with it!)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

How much is their Cut ?


4 posted on 11/02/2020 8:27:20 AM PST by butlerweave
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To: Da Coyote

Defund the police...all except their personal armed guards.


5 posted on 11/02/2020 9:35:36 AM PST by DPMD
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To: ChicagoConservative27

The man who was shot and killed by police in Philly last week might not have been had the police had tasers to take him down instead - they didn’t because the department couldn’t afford them - funny how that Defund the Police business works out for Black lives.......


6 posted on 11/02/2020 12:30:12 PM PST by Intolerant in NJ
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