CBS News Defund the police made headlines. What does it look like now?
Watch the CBSN Originals documentary What Does It Mean to Defund the Police? in the video player above. Defund the police became a rallying cry during Black Lives Matter protests across the U.S. and around the world in the summer of 2020, following the deaths of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor and others at the hands of police. But in the months since, how has the debate developed, and what does it mean for American communities?
A new documentary from CBSN Originals features voices on different sides of the issue to help shed light on the movement and the future of policing.
America was founded upon the idea of justice. But the barricades and ominous mob of protesters outside the Hennepin County courthouse in Minneapolis where the trial of Derek Chauvin is underway suggest that fair and equal justice might be a relic of the past. And while protest banners insist that Am
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The Los Angeles Police Department has identified a police officer who shared a Valentine-style image of George Floyd with the words “You take my breath away” and is in the process of interviewing that officer about his actions, LAPD Chief Michel Moore said Tuesday.
The officer, who allegedly shared the image via a text message to another officer, could face administrative discipline, Moore said.
“In my view that constitutes misconduct,” he said.
Moore also said that the LAPD is working with the Los Angeles County district attorney’s office in an effort to obtain a court order that would force Instagram to provide details about the individuals who operated a since-removed account called “Choir Practice,” which posted “racist and prejudicial postings and remarks” and which other officers had flagged as being somehow affiliated with department personnel.
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