Ben and Jerry's calls to 'defund the police' in a Juneteenth social media post building on its long campaign against racism
The post is a picture of a large bowl of ice cream — labeled "US Police Budget $115 Billion" — being redistributed to smaller bowls labeled "Affordable housing," "Job training," "Education," "Mental-health counseling," and "Substance-abuse treatment.
Juneteenth, which has been celebrated since 1866, commemorates the day in 1865 when more than 250,000 enslaved Black Texans were informed by a Union general that they had been freed. This came more than two years after President Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation went into effect on January 1, 1863, freeing enslaved Black people in many states. Slavery was not fully abolished in the US until the passage of the 13th Amendment in December 1865.
Ben & Jerry's first publicly stated its support for the Black Lives Matter movement four years ago. Since then, the brand has regularly
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