Historically, it has been Democrat legislators who have voted to approve every Memorandum of Understanding of the California Correctional Peace Officers Association collective bargaining agreements.
Mega-online retailer Amazon is now selling t-shirts, hats and accessories that say “Blue Lives Murder.” Many people have contacted Amazon to remove the offensive products.
California Globe has received numerous messages from readers saying they’ve cancelled their Amazon Prime memberships.
And angry Amazon shoppers posted these questions on the page with a Blue Lives Murder t-shirt for sale:
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Is this appeasement of rioters or support of the “defund the police” movement?
‘Defund the Police’
Rioters and some public officials are calling for police departments across the state to be defunded and for the money to be put toward social programs benefiting communities of color.
Riots broke out throughout the country after the May 25th death/murder of George Floyd by a white Minneapolis police officer who pressed a knee on his neck.
The demands by protesters, rioters, leftists and Democrats politicians for cutting police department budget — or outright defunding them — comes at a time when most cities and states are facing large deficits and economic uncertainty that are a result of governors’ lockdown orders during the coronavirus outbreak.
Perhaps it’s poetic justice or just irony, but the San Diego City Council voted 8-1 to adopt the proposed budget for the 2021 fiscal year, including the creation of a city Office of Race and Equity to tackle racial equity issues and a $27 million increase for the San Diego Police Department, NBC San Diego reported Tuesday. “We did not defund the San Diego Police Department because, to help restore trust in our police department, we need to focus more on neighborhood policing,” Council President Pro Tem Barbara Bry said in a statement.
Another irony in the California Legislature taking up the “defund the police” banner is that it has historically been Democrat lawmakers in the Legislature who have voted to approve every Memorandum of Understanding of the California Correctional Peace Officers Association (CCPOA) collective bargaining agreements.
“The movement to defund the police is based on nothing but lies,” Kyle Smith wrote at the New York Post. Smith debunks the myth that funding for cops and the military has gone up every year since 1973 while spending on “public health” has gone down every year since 1973. He explains:
“Here’s the reality: Medicaid spending in 1975 stood at $13.1 billion. It has gone up virtually every year since, and now stands at $639 billion. Overall, public health spending has risen from less than $200 billion in 1988 to $1.6 trillion last year, according to HealthSystemTracker.org.”
Smith correctly says “police need to have the confidence that their political leaders will back them up.”
“Right now, police enjoy no such confidence. Mayors and governors make it clear their sympathies lie more with protesters than their own cops. Hundreds of activists are crying, ‘Abolish the police’ on Twitter. A city councilman in Minneapolis mused on Twitter about what it might take to ‘disband’ his city’s police department.”
“America is learning dismal new lingo from the graffiti left behind in the riots: ‘ACAB’ and ‘1312,’ both meaning ‘All Cops are Bastards.’ The numbers correspond to where the letters A, C, A and B fall in the alphabet. A picture published this week showed President Trump walking by a crude spray-paint graffito reading, ‘FTP’ — eff the police. Cops are feeling besieged. We should be sending them gift baskets, not silly threats to abolish or defund them.”
As California Globe reported last week, as Democrats are calling for abolishing or defunding police departments, a YouGov poll found “despite calls by activists and protesters to defund police departments, most Americans do not support reducing law enforcement budgets. Close to two-thirds (65%) oppose cutting police force funding. Just 16 percent of Democrats and 15 percent of Republicans support that idea.”
The poll was conducted from May 29 – 30, George Floyd was killed by a Minneapolis police officer, but before the worst of the rioting in America’s big cities.
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Just when you think things can't get any more sick than they already are something like these shirts come out. I'm cancelling my Amazon Prime and I will not get anything through Amazon again! EVER!!! If there were Black Lives Murder shirts well now that would be racist.
Nothing like taking sides and villifying the police with your Blue lives Murder shirts....shame on the makers of these shirts and shame on Amazon for selling them. I am officially boycotting Amazon. I can live without them, but I can't live without our police officers who keep us safe daily. One bad apple does NOT spoil the whole bunch in this case.
DISGUSTING!!!
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Cops are 18.5 times as likely to be killed by a black male than kill one. WSJ article.
I will be cancelling ever ordering from a platform that incites murder of anyone. Shame on you!!! I will be spreading your discusting Roderick.
Will never order from Amazon again. You have rights, so do I.
Amazon can kiss my red white and blue ass. You are just exacerbating the problem in our country. I will never use your service ever again!
Amazon can kiss my red white and blue ass. You are just exacerbating the problem in our country. I will never use your service ever again!
I cancelled my Amazon account yesterday. Believe me, it is not an easy process (and I just had a regular account, not Prime). You have to search for the link to close the account, then you must request to close your account, then you have to await an email which they state can take between 12-24 hours (this must be the time they hope you forget about it), then they try to talk you into staying in the email. If you continue with the cancellation you have to click on a link in the email and they send you back to Amazon where you must give a reason for closing your account and then you click the link to close it. Next, it states you will receive an email (again within 12-24 hours) as THEY decide if they will cancel your account. Unbelievable!!! It's like a cult....once you get in, difficult to get out. NEVER again will I use Amazon!!!
I just cancelled my Amazon account today. As you stated, it is a chore to do so. I had to enter the customer service CHAT and put in my phone number to have someone call me, which they did. They sent me an email "warning me" of the consequences of my cancellation, and asked me if I still wanted to cancel. Of course, I answered yes. It is amazing what these people are capable of and how stupid they think we are!
Oh, so you need my email in order for me to comment? Fine...This is disgusting! Amazon, you should be ashamed of yourself! No more money from me!!!