The BlackLivesMatter co-founder OsopePatrisse calls for defunding of police departments and describes the ongoing protests as 'a human reaction to a deeply unstable and dysfunctional relationship to a country that has dehumanized us for centuries'
Patrisse Cullors, a TV writer on Freeform's 'Good Trouble,' describes the ongoing protests as"a human reaction to a deeply unstable and dysfunctional relationship to a country that has dehumanized us for centuries."
"For hundreds of years, black communities have lived under state terror — be it police or vigilante violence," says Cullors, who also is an artist, a television writer and author of the 2018 "An abolitionist believes in a world where police and prisons are no longer weaponized as a tool for public safety.
She adds that if Hollywood wants to help, they can support Black Lives Matter-LA, Reform L.A. Jails and Justice-LA. and she supports voting out incumbent Los Angeles County District Attorney Jackie Lacey and voting in her progressive challenger George Gascon.
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