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In June, NYC residents paid over $115 million for NYPD police officers to
arrest, choke, maim, and terrorize protestors.

Enough is Enough.

[ [link removed] ]Check out the huge billboard we just put up in Times Square.

John,

The NYPD’s police union, the Police Benevolent Association (PBA), is one
of the biggest barriers to police reform in New York City and a danger to
all Black people. 

In a rare move to stifle our movement to hold police accountable, the PBA
recently endorsed Trump for re-election. And just a few days ago, an NYPD
union leader unleashed a homophobic attack on Ritchie Torres, who is
likely to become the first openly gay Afro-Latino lawmaker in the U.S.
House.

As folks like you, John, continue to demand justice for the
Black people murdered by police, the NYPD has spent that same amount of
time attempting to suppress our calls for justice. They’ve driven their
cars into protestors,^1 threw flash grenades into anti-police brutality
protesters,^2 besieged a protest leader at their home,^3 and regularly
beat, choke, and punch people taking it to the streets to shout, “Black
Lives Matter!”

We have to put an end to the NYPD’s terror on Black people! So we just put
up a huge digital billboard in the center of Times Square right across
from the NYPD station to tell them we won’t stand for their attacks on us.
[ [link removed] ]Take a quick second to watch the video of our powerful billboard.

This is our message to the most deadly police force, John: “Hey
NYPD. It’s us. NYC residents. The ones who pay your salary. We paid $300
million to settle your lawsuits. You paid nothing. We need to talk.”

The billboard, which will run until the end of September, will be an
everyday reminder to the NYPD, Mayor Bill de Blasio, other elected
officials, and all New Yorkers about how we currently throw away billions
in tax-dollars into policing Black and Brown folks instead of
interventions that actually work.

With a budget of almost 6 billion dollars a year, they outsize every other
state and even some countries’ law enforcement agencies — and with an
arsenal of chemical weapons, tanks, sniper units, surveillance towers, and
sound grenades, they look more like an army prepared for war than a city
police department.

While the NYPD’s budget has ballooned to $6 billion, affordable housing,
youth programs, support for elders, education, and more have all seen cuts
due to de Blasio’s misplaced priority of funding the NYPD. For every
dollar the NYPD gets, only 29 cents goes to homeless services, 25 cents to
the department of health, and just one penny to workforce development. 

Our taxpayer money is fueling a military institution that doesn’t serve
the needs of the most disadvantaged residents. 

We need your help to spread our powerful message that we need to address
the lack of investment in our communities. Here are three powerful actions
you can take right now:

 1. [ [link removed] ]Share the video with your friends and family via email and post on
social media.
 2. [ [link removed] ]Demand lawmakers divest from police union funding. Police unions
pay lawmakers to keep making costly and dangerous policy decisions.
Your lawmakers should be accountable to you, not special interests.
 3. Visit [ [link removed] ]Need-To-Talk.org to join the fight and learn more about what
you can do to invest in solutions that work to keep us safe.

Until justice is real,

--Scott, Malachi, Leonard, and the rest of the Color Of Change PAC team

References:

1. [ [link removed] ]Video shows NYPD vehicles driving into protesters in Brooklyn CBS
News.

2. [ [link removed] ]‘It Felt Like Warfare’: Protesters Say the Police Attacked Them New
York Times.

3. [ [link removed] ]N.Y.P.D. Besieges Black Lives Matter Leader as He Broadcasts Live
Core Alpha.

 


 
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