Politics & Government
Union Leaders Call For Defunding LAPD, Joining LA Activists
Major unions including United Teachers and the SEIU joined Black Lives Matter on Monday in calling for the defunding of the LAPD.
LOS ANGELES (CBSLA) — Major union leaders in Los Angeles County Monday pledged their support to the Black Lives Matter agenda working toward defunding the Los Angeles Police Department and redirecting those funds to community organizations.
Leaders from United Teachers Los Angeles, Service Employees International Union and others came out to a peaceful protest in front of City Hall calling for an end to systemic racism.
“It’s really just bound to ideologies that all of America operates on, ideologies that have been inherited from generation after generation, ideologies that tell one group of people that they are more dominant and in a position of power over another group of people,” one demonstrator said. Along with an end to systemic racism, the demonstrators also called for the city to go even further to defund the LAPD.
