‘Defund the police’ activist goes viral after begging for police help when everything she owned was stolen in SF

Her crooked bangs tell a story.

She should have called a social worker.

Defunded or fully funded, the police are zero help with something like this.

They'll barely take a report down.

Did you get 2 American dollars for this post Boris?

Alright, who's going to check GoFundMe?

R4, you seem unnerved. Can you provide some context as to why this bothers you so?

No police, no investigation

R6 he still has his Harris/Walz sign in the yard

Defund the police never meant get rid of the police. It means stop giving them so much money until they learn to treat all people equally.

If she were black they would have shot her

R9 you’re obviously insane.

"defund police" means to fund cops to be cops. you know, fighting crime - when a crime is in progress, they show up. when a plethora of other social problems come up, that they do not have the training, education, experience nor temperament to handle, let's fund other professionals who do - this way things won't escalate to violence, killing, false arrests, and citizens human rights violations.........nice try, but it's never going to happen. people love violence, people love to hate....so none of that is ever going away.....

She sho’ is ugly!

Well, you know what they say................

Why would anyone leave a truck unattended if it contained all your possessions?

This makes no sense.

And apparently she didn't call the police when the truck went missing. Only after the UHaul company told her to report the theft because they wanted their truck back.

In San Francisco, no less.

Wow.

Local police dept have become military machines. You see this when they bring out the tanks and such during major searches.

Defund this nonsense.

We need more social workers and mental health specialists in police depts, not more officers who just over police minority neighborhoods.

THAT’s what defund the police means

^ You just know R15 is white and oh so knowledgable about minority neighborhoods.

And everything she owned fit in a thimble.

R11 The argument you just made has too many components for the average American idiot. Just too many. If it’s not ABC-123 they don’t get it or do get it but just want to be cynical.

OP's link said she posted shit up on X. It did not say she begged the police for help or contacted the police at all. Something in the water does not compute.

Look, R15 and others. “Defund” has a really simple dictionary definition. It means “cease to fund.” Period. None of your defensive explanatory fine print.

It is widely understood among Democrats who actually want to win elections, that “defund the police” was a spectacularly good activist campaign …. for Republicans.

R15 is absolutely correct. There is no need for a militarily armed police force against its civilian population. Its gross overkill. There is no need for US police forces to resemble the Gestapo or the SS, unless the object is to completely subjugate and terrorize the civilian population.

[Quote] ^ You just know [R15] is white and oh so knowledgable about minority neighborhoods.

I lived in Harlem for 10 years and that place is completely overpriced. There would be 5 police constantly on my block alone. They’d pull over car after car, no matter how small the infraction. No white neighborhood I’ve ever lived in had that many police.

[Quote] “Defund” has a really simple dictionary definition. It means “cease to fund.” Period. None of your defensive explanatory fine print. It is widely understood among Democrats who actually want to win elections, that “defund the police” was a spectacularly good activist campaign …. for Republicans.

With police killing tons of unarmed Black people, defunding makes complete sense. Republicans used it to mock Dems because Republicans are completely fine, and even encourage, violence against minorities.

If whites were targeted by police, what would their slogan be? “Keep funding the police as usual!”?

[quote]If whites were targeted by police, what would their slogan be? “Keep funding the police as usual!”?

More white people are killed by police than black people, but do continue with your propaganda.

[points at Darcie Bell] HAW HAW!

[quote]let's fund other professionals who do - this way things won't escalate to violence

As someone with family members who are social workers, I'm telling you right now, they are not about to show up to a call for someone having a mental health episode and behaving erratically without the police securing the scene first. They just aren't. I have asked them what they thought about the "sending social workers instead of cops to these types of calls" idea and to summarize the overall consensus, this was basically the answer, "Shiiiiiiiiiiiet."

reVAMP the police

I agree with the concept of "defunding the police," but I think it's the worst name for a movement.

People keep saying, "No, it doesn't mean stop funding the police. It means reallocating funds to other resources." OR "Instead of buying a 2024 four-wheel drive cruiser, why not get a 2021 model? Then the leftover funds could be used to recruit potential officers in urban areas."

Simple and something I think many more people would support, BUT the title is off-putting. Sometimes we can't get out of our own way.

Remember back in 2012, the slogan was "Defund ICE?" During an election year, no less.

I don’t understand what the big deal is about defunding the police, it’s not like we haven’t been defunding education for decades. Where’s the outrage about that?

Defund the police is utter stupidity meant to get Republicans elected while derailing meaningful police reforms like ending qualified immunity, creating a national database of bad cops and demilitarizing the police. And anyone arguing that defund doesn’t mean defund is a soft headed idiot.

Defund the police was the best political slogan ever created…to help elect Republicans.

That hair. Ugh.

Feel good story!

Well back to the thrift store she goes .

[QUOTE] I lived in Harlem for 10 years and that place is completely overpriced. There would be 5 police constantly on my block alone. They’d pull over car after car, no matter how small the infraction. No white neighborhood I’ve ever lived in had that many police.

How does having more police there make it overpriced?

R9 lol no the fuck it wasn't.

The person who stole her truck was certainly marginalized and was just taking back what they were owed by colonizers and gentrifiers like her.

She should be celebrating the liberation of her worldly goods, not crying about their redistribution.

R38 - You need to track her down on SM and post that. Brilliant.

[quote]With police killing tons of unarmed Black people

You write like a child.

[Quote] More white people are killed by police than black people, but do continue with your propaganda.

False equivalence. There are far more white people in the US so, of course, statistically, more whites will be killed. The issue is about how many unarmed Blacks are killed and the pathetic excuses the police use for why they were killed (the main one being, “I was afraid.”)

[Quote] How does having more police there make it overpriced?

Should have been “over policed” but apparently iPhones don’t have that in their dictionary

Sadly, after all the George Floyd brouhaha, have police departments made any changesv

The Black Lives Matter movement and protests made companies and academic institution take a good hard look at their policies to assure that minorities are treated fairly.

But then came the inevitable white supremacy backlash. Never dare allow minorities to gain any equality. Otherwise whites will destroy you.

The right’s stance is always, There’s no problem. Blacks and Whites are treated equally everywhere. If Blacks don’t get to the C-Suite, it’s their own fault

[quote]The issue is about how many unarmed Blacks

Explain to us how a cop is supposed to know that a violent criminal is unarmed.