BLM co-founder to speak at event with LA students seeking to defund school police
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Black Lives Matter (BLM) co-founder Patrisse Cullors is slated to deliver the keynote address at an event this week hosted by students in the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) who have pushed to defund school police.
"Students Deserve is working towards Making Black Lives Matter in Schools," the organization says on its website. "We want schools to divest from criminalization and policing. We want schools to invest in us as Black, Muslim, undocumented, indigenous, and queer youth in poor and working class communities of color. We follow the lead of Black Lives Matter in demanding that our schools defund the police and defend Black life."
In February 2021, the Los Angeles Board of Education approved a plan to cut a third of its officers, as well as to ban the use of pepper spray on students and divert funds from the department to improve the education of Black students.
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