Appearing on MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell Reports with guest host Peter Alexander, a youth leader of the protest movement in Chicago that was triggered by the police shooting of a black teenager in 2014, demands that the police department be defunded and the money be reallocated “to fund black futures.†The Washington Free Beacon reports that Breanna Champion of the Black Youth Project called it "unheard of" and “unacceptable†that police receive 40 percent of the city’s budget. Her organization wants that money