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  • Black Lives Matter, Squad Demand Biden Embrace Legislation That Promises to ‘Abandon’ Police, Empty Prisons

    11/25/2020 3:57:18 PM PST · by rustyweiss74 · 36 replies
    MenRec ^ | 11/25/20 | Staff
    Black Lives Matter activists are calling on the Biden administration to embrace legislation brought forth by a group seeking to “abandon” police and prisons. The BREATHE Act, introduced over the summer by ‘Squad’ members Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) and Ayanna Pressley (D-MA), has been developed by the Electoral Justice Project for the Movement for Black Lives (M4BL). The group’s website makes clear that America “cannot achieve genuine safety and liberation until we abandon police, prisons, and all punishment paradigms.” The Act itself, according to the Philadelphia Inquirer, not only seeks to defund the police but also divest resources from incarceration and...