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Public Comment
From:gemma medlam-cooke <
Sent:Monday, December 7, 2020 12:20 PM
To:Public Comment; Harry Sidhu (Mayor)
Subject:Act now
Trigger warning racism antiblackness
trauma murder homicide trauma black grief police brutality and violence and abuse prison cops
incarceration jail domestic violence addiction Hello there my name is Gemma Medlam-Cooke I'm
voicing my demands about the police and prisons one being defund "reform" from history and now has
shown us that "reform"" has no affect and police just find loop holes like for example unremoveable
body cameras the police just covered them so it didn't catch anything of the innicdent and with
deexacalation and anti-racism training they still resorted straight to brutality and murder without
exhausting all other options and testing,etc their racism and bias "reform" just continues a system that
systematically opresses and murders black people.this gross display priorities by increasing the police
and prisons budgets is deem unacceptable so I demand
-to not aprove resolution 19 and 5
-To stop sending the police to mental heath crisis,people with addiction,domestic violence and to hand
this over to emergency responders immediately (ambulance,medical proffesstionals,mental heath
experts,) as training the police in this among other things is type of "reform" and doesn't work
-To free all protestors and drop all charges made against them immediately.
-to freeze polices salaries immediately
-To freeze hirings of police officers
-To never vote to fund and increase all the budgets of police and prisons and instead vote yes to
decreasing police and prisons budgets
-To cancel all cadets,squads,teams,city peace officers, and all types of officers
-To free all protestors and drop alll charges against them immediately they have a right to protest and
assemble
-to cancel and abolish pedestrian as well as vehicle stops which disportionately targets black people
immediately
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-To stop supplying the police with teargas,pepperstray,riot shields,rubber bullets,etc immediately its
dangerous and can result in death and has read this https://nypost.com/2020/06/09/ohio-woman-dies-
after-exposure-to-tear-gas-pepper-spray/
-To slash,cut,cancel,and freeze all the police and prisons budgets and any oncoming ones and ones
being created immediately
-to abolish and cancel police patrols immediately
To disarm,demilitatarise,dismantle,abolish and defund the police and prisons immediately and redirect
this funding and vote yes to funding and increasing in the community instead into but not limited to
311,addiction programs and centers,bail funds for
protestorshttps://www.communityjusticeexchange.org/nbfn-directory,mutual aid,covid relief,harm
reduction centers,transformative justice,conflict resolution programs and centers,
black owned buisnesses ,housing for all,shelters,food stability,black families that have lost those to
and centers that
police violence and brutality via gofundme or other ways,community,efforts,led,
work against racism,communityefforts,led,centers,and organizations,education,thrift
stores,museums,art programs,https://blacklivesmatter.com/chapters/,black visions
colleective,sayhername,etc and so much more and here are some more blm centric
organizations to donate to but not limited to
Black voters matter
Black aids institute
Reclaim the block
The Marsha p Johnson institute
The okra project
Black women for wellness
Black womens health imperative
Sylvia Rivera law project
Bravo space alliance
Black trans travel fund
Black trans advocacy coalition
Third wave fund
Homeless black trans women fund
Emergency release fund
F2L relief fund
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Fair fight Georgia
SNaPCo
The national black justice coalition
The kween culture initiative
Black and pink
Center for black equity
Black leaders organizing communities
National coalition on black civic participation/black women's roundtable
Southerners on new ground
The bail project
black lives matter regional chapters
the power is in your hands so can I count on you to make the right decisions from now on
and into the future?.with all do regards .do not be complicit in this.from nz.act now.
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