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Black Lives Matter (BLM) co-founder Patrisse Cullors has reacted to the guilty verdict of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin for the murder of George Floyd, telling followers on Instagram that while it was a “victory because it was accountability… it wasn’t a victory because it [doesn’t] take us towards abolition.”
Cullors added, “It’s not a sign that our criminal justice system is working, it’s actually a sign that it’s broken. It’s a sign that it never worked for us, and that we have to move towards abolition.”
In short, the long-term goal of BLM is to abolish the criminal justice system entirely. Is this a call for anarchy?
It is not at all clear what BLM would replace the current criminal justice system with, and yet without it, it would have been impossible for Minnesota to hold Chauvin accountable at all for the death of Floyd. It’s a contradictory message, to say the least.
To be fair, if Chauvin had been found not guilty, Cullors surely would have said the same thing, that there can be no justice and that police abolition was the only way to achieve the group’s goals.
Instead, with the guilty verdict, the group got what it wanted, which was for Chauvin to be held to the same standard as everyone else — equal justice under the law — but now they’re saying that’s not good enough.
In 2020, BLM similarly called for defunding the police, which is along the lines of abolishing the criminal justice system. But the public by and large rejected that idea.
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At the time in June 2020, an ABC News/Ipsos poll found 64 percent of Americans rejected the idea of defunding the police, including 91 percent of Republicans, 45 percent of Democrats, 43 percent of blacks, 58 percent of Hispanics and 74 percent of whites.
Those numbers swelled in a July 2020 Pew poll that found 73 percent say police funding should either remain the same or increase, including 42 percent who say police spending should remain the same and 31 percent say it should be increased.
Only 25 percent of Americans supported cutting spending for local police departments in the Pew poll, with just 12 percent saying it should be decreased a lot and another 14 percent saying it should be reduced a little.
In March 2021, the number has dropped even further in an Ipsos/USA Today poll, with only 18 percent supporting defunding the police.
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