The anti-Black white supremacist City of Phoenix has been targeting Black liberation activists with violent arrests and false felony charges and now you want to get reimbursed for your violence. You've ignored the voices of the Black people impacted by your violence, but you rush to protect property and power. Even considering this blood money is disgraceful. #DefundPhxPD
I appose item #30. Phoenix PD is already overfunded and does not deserve the money of hardworking Americans. I attended many of these protests ovet the summer and I never experienced one that can be considered a "riot." It is absolutely disgusting that the councilmembers are trying to pass this right after Martin Luther King Jr Day. The council disgraces his memory by punishing the very thing he fought for. The council fails to represent its community.
The Phoenix police need less funding, NOT more! They most certainly do not need funding for riots that never happened, and the funds in question should instead go towards the Black Lives Matter movement for things such as tuition, PUA, and rebuilding black communities.
City Council is voting on whether the Phoenix Police Department deserves to be given $6.9 MILLION of federal disaster relief money in the aftermath of the summer demonstrations. This is baffling. After witnessing the outrage and pleas for justice from Phoenix residents being actively targeted and killed by this police department, how can this governing body turn around and decide to use taxpayer dollars to reimburse and reinforce the people doing the killing? Not another cent! #DefundPhxPD
The audacity to label the Phx Black Lives Matter protests as “riots” when it was simply Black folks exercising their 1st ammendment rights to freedom of assembly. Do you know what a riot actually is? A bunch of white supremacists beating a police officer to death with a fire extinguisher because they are angry that their guy didn’t win. City Council, your anti-Black rhetoric is inciting white supremacist violence here and giving $7M to Phx PD will only stoke the fire more. #DefundPhxPD
It’s a well known fact that Phoenix police are some of the most violent in the country. They spent the majority of 2020 brutalizing peaceful protestors who stand in defense of Black Lives. Activists have been repeatedly targeted and attacked without cause. To reimburse them for the cruel and senseless violence is a slap in the face of Phoenix residents. It’s a waste of money that can and should be used to make positive impacts in this community. We oppose this. Listen and act in favor of peace.
Phoenix city council has been ignoring the repeated demands of Black community leaders all year. This behaviour is anti-Black and white supremacist. The Phoenix police department is well known as one of the most violent in the nation and they demonstrated this all summer by violently arresting protestors and community organizers. We are echoing Black leadership's demands to vote no on this harmful measure and to defund the violent Phoenix police department!
After witnessing the outrage and pleas for justice from Phoenix residents being actively targeted and killed by this police department, how can this governing body turn around and decide to use taxpayer dollars to reimburse and reinforce the people doing the killing? These were peaceful demonstrations, not riots. The main instigators were the police. There was no need for them to use any of their resources. Those individuals made the choice to be at these protests, also paid, and waste materials
City Council is voting on whether to grant nearly 7 million dollars to the Phoenix police department, one of the most violent and deadly in the nation, in response to the summer protests. This is totally backward, as the uprising was to denounce the murderous anti-Black military police state as it exists in America. The next step forward from here must not include handing over more funds to police for any purpose. You must not continue to support the PPD. Defund. Dismantle. Invest in community.
Decades of police training programs have failed, as evidenced by the case of G. Floyd and others. We must instead look for alternatives to the established system, to solve all of the same problems that police typically deal with, such that armed police, and any individuals who are authorized to make arrests, are never the first responders.
The "Defund the Police" concept needs a road-map, but supporting new police funding is contrary to progress. Unless you stand for injustice, vote no on 130.
Every time you give Phx PD more money you display your anti-Blackness. Any damage that occurred during these protests was at the hands of your police force who literally were trying to kill Black and brown protestors for asserting their first amendment rights. NO more money to Phx PD. Vote NO. #DefundPhxPD
City Council presents a $7 million dollar knee to the neck if they vote yes. This is a blatant reward to violent, anti-Black, white supremacist behavior. That is fully unacceptable. Non-violent protesters lay on asphalt for 8:46 seconds. Racist police chose tear gas and rubber bullets. This behavior should not be compensated nor justified. This violence can not be endorsed. There is blood on your hands council, you approve and fund this violence. We demand City Council vote no. #DefundPhxPD
PHX PD has a budget of $745 MILLION dollars. PHX PD is also ranked one of the most violent police forces in the nation. We cannot continue to fund or further reward this department when this money is directly tied to the harm they impose upon our community- most specifically toward Black & Brown folk (and organizers and supporters of a movement looking to create a more just and equitable society). Council has a responsibility to act in the best interests of our city, PHX PD does not reflect that
Phoenix city council has been ignoring the repeated demands of Black community leaders all year. This behaviour is anti-Black and white supremacist. The Phoenix police department is well known as one of the most violent in the nation and they demonstrated this all summer by violently arresting protestors and community organizers. We are echoing Black leadership's demands to vote no on this harmful measure and to defund the violent Phoenix police department!
Phx PD is quite capable of continuing to murder with their existing $745 million. How about you give 7 million to help with legal fees for non-violent protestors facing political prosecution? Or 7 million could help end evictions, or provide housing and healthcare? Instead you reinforce false narratives about protestors against police brutality being “rioters” and “terrorists.” The only terror here is you, MCAO and Phx PD colluding in this white supremacist nonsense. No money to Phx PD. Vote NO.
City counsel, we demand that you oppose this item to give the Phoenix police department more money in exchange of violence against Phoenix residents. The message that this funding sends will confirm what many of us know already: Phoenix council members and other representatives do not side with their community nor do they care about the community. You’d rather feed the deadly force more capital then to do your job properly and vote for actions that protect and benefit Phoenix residents. Vote no
We don't need almost 7 million dollars for damages from "riots." There were no riots here and any damage done was provoked by Phoenix police - and no where near worth that much money anyway. Why reward police for destroying their own city? How can some of the city council members sleep at night even considering giving away almost 7 million dollars for this BS while refusing to approve more shelter beds for so long and allowing our unhoused neighbors to suffer and even pass away in their streets.
Language matters. Actions matter. Black Lives Matter. As you mislabel non-violent protesters as rioters and continue to fund violent white supremacits, you blatantly display what really matters to you. Money talks. Let your language and actions show you value people over property. Oppose the nearly $7 million imbursement to the Phoenix Police Department. #DefundPhxPD
The Phoenix PD DOES NOT NEED MORE MONEY. They already have $745,000,000 budget this year. Defund the police! Fund education, fund housing, fund healthcare, fund Coronavirus response, fund small businesses- please do anything else but funnel more money into the PHXPD.
Continued increases to PPD budgets must not go unchallenged, especially when these fund increases are in response to demonstrations held specifically against police violence. What does it say to the people of Phoenix who took to the streets to demand that their city do better, when these funds are allocated to reinforce the racist departments that patrol them instead of improving their quality of life? Your white supremacist slip is showing, City Council. #DefundPhxPD
The anti-Black white supremacist City of Phoenix has been targeting Black liberation activists with violent arrests and false felony charges and now you want to get reimbursed for your violence. You've ignored the voices of the Black people impacted by your violence, but you rush to protect property and power. Even considering this blood money is disgraceful. #DefundPhxPD
I appose item #30. Phoenix PD is already overfunded and does not deserve the money of hardworking Americans. I attended many of these protests ovet the summer and I never experienced one that can be considered a "riot." It is absolutely disgusting that the councilmembers are trying to pass this right after Martin Luther King Jr Day. The council disgraces his memory by punishing the very thing he fought for. The council fails to represent its community.
The Phoenix police need less funding, NOT more! They most certainly do not need funding for riots that never happened, and the funds in question should instead go towards the Black Lives Matter movement for things such as tuition, PUA, and rebuilding black communities.
City Council is voting on whether the Phoenix Police Department deserves to be given $6.9 MILLION of federal disaster relief money in the aftermath of the summer demonstrations. This is baffling. After witnessing the outrage and pleas for justice from Phoenix residents being actively targeted and killed by this police department, how can this governing body turn around and decide to use taxpayer dollars to reimburse and reinforce the people doing the killing? Not another cent! #DefundPhxPD
The audacity to label the Phx Black Lives Matter protests as “riots” when it was simply Black folks exercising their 1st ammendment rights to freedom of assembly. Do you know what a riot actually is? A bunch of white supremacists beating a police officer to death with a fire extinguisher because they are angry that their guy didn’t win. City Council, your anti-Black rhetoric is inciting white supremacist violence here and giving $7M to Phx PD will only stoke the fire more. #DefundPhxPD
It’s a well known fact that Phoenix police are some of the most violent in the country. They spent the majority of 2020 brutalizing peaceful protestors who stand in defense of Black Lives. Activists have been repeatedly targeted and attacked without cause. To reimburse them for the cruel and senseless violence is a slap in the face of Phoenix residents. It’s a waste of money that can and should be used to make positive impacts in this community. We oppose this. Listen and act in favor of peace.
Phoenix city council has been ignoring the repeated demands of Black community leaders all year. This behaviour is anti-Black and white supremacist. The Phoenix police department is well known as one of the most violent in the nation and they demonstrated this all summer by violently arresting protestors and community organizers. We are echoing Black leadership's demands to vote no on this harmful measure and to defund the violent Phoenix police department!
After witnessing the outrage and pleas for justice from Phoenix residents being actively targeted and killed by this police department, how can this governing body turn around and decide to use taxpayer dollars to reimburse and reinforce the people doing the killing? These were peaceful demonstrations, not riots. The main instigators were the police. There was no need for them to use any of their resources. Those individuals made the choice to be at these protests, also paid, and waste materials
City Council is voting on whether to grant nearly 7 million dollars to the Phoenix police department, one of the most violent and deadly in the nation, in response to the summer protests. This is totally backward, as the uprising was to denounce the murderous anti-Black military police state as it exists in America. The next step forward from here must not include handing over more funds to police for any purpose. You must not continue to support the PPD. Defund. Dismantle. Invest in community.
Decades of police training programs have failed, as evidenced by the case of G. Floyd and others. We must instead look for alternatives to the established system, to solve all of the same problems that police typically deal with, such that armed police, and any individuals who are authorized to make arrests, are never the first responders.
The "Defund the Police" concept needs a road-map, but supporting new police funding is contrary to progress. Unless you stand for injustice, vote no on 130.
Every time you give Phx PD more money you display your anti-Blackness. Any damage that occurred during these protests was at the hands of your police force who literally were trying to kill Black and brown protestors for asserting their first amendment rights. NO more money to Phx PD. Vote NO. #DefundPhxPD
City Council presents a $7 million dollar knee to the neck if they vote yes. This is a blatant reward to violent, anti-Black, white supremacist behavior. That is fully unacceptable. Non-violent protesters lay on asphalt for 8:46 seconds. Racist police chose tear gas and rubber bullets. This behavior should not be compensated nor justified. This violence can not be endorsed. There is blood on your hands council, you approve and fund this violence. We demand City Council vote no. #DefundPhxPD
PHX PD has a budget of $745 MILLION dollars. PHX PD is also ranked one of the most violent police forces in the nation. We cannot continue to fund or further reward this department when this money is directly tied to the harm they impose upon our community- most specifically toward Black & Brown folk (and organizers and supporters of a movement looking to create a more just and equitable society). Council has a responsibility to act in the best interests of our city, PHX PD does not reflect that
Phoenix city council has been ignoring the repeated demands of Black community leaders all year. This behaviour is anti-Black and white supremacist. The Phoenix police department is well known as one of the most violent in the nation and they demonstrated this all summer by violently arresting protestors and community organizers. We are echoing Black leadership's demands to vote no on this harmful measure and to defund the violent Phoenix police department!
Phx PD is quite capable of continuing to murder with their existing $745 million. How about you give 7 million to help with legal fees for non-violent protestors facing political prosecution? Or 7 million could help end evictions, or provide housing and healthcare? Instead you reinforce false narratives about protestors against police brutality being “rioters” and “terrorists.” The only terror here is you, MCAO and Phx PD colluding in this white supremacist nonsense. No money to Phx PD. Vote NO.
City counsel, we demand that you oppose this item to give the Phoenix police department more money in exchange of violence against Phoenix residents. The message that this funding sends will confirm what many of us know already: Phoenix council members and other representatives do not side with their community nor do they care about the community. You’d rather feed the deadly force more capital then to do your job properly and vote for actions that protect and benefit Phoenix residents. Vote no
We don't need almost 7 million dollars for damages from "riots." There were no riots here and any damage done was provoked by Phoenix police - and no where near worth that much money anyway. Why reward police for destroying their own city? How can some of the city council members sleep at night even considering giving away almost 7 million dollars for this BS while refusing to approve more shelter beds for so long and allowing our unhoused neighbors to suffer and even pass away in their streets.
Language matters. Actions matter. Black Lives Matter. As you mislabel non-violent protesters as rioters and continue to fund violent white supremacits, you blatantly display what really matters to you. Money talks. Let your language and actions show you value people over property. Oppose the nearly $7 million imbursement to the Phoenix Police Department. #DefundPhxPD
The Phoenix PD DOES NOT NEED MORE MONEY. They already have $745,000,000 budget this year. Defund the police! Fund education, fund housing, fund healthcare, fund Coronavirus response, fund small businesses- please do anything else but funnel more money into the PHXPD.
Continued increases to PPD budgets must not go unchallenged, especially when these fund increases are in response to demonstrations held specifically against police violence. What does it say to the people of Phoenix who took to the streets to demand that their city do better, when these funds are allocated to reinforce the racist departments that patrol them instead of improving their quality of life? Your white supremacist slip is showing, City Council. #DefundPhxPD