LA Council Pres Who Called for Defunding LAPD Had Private LAPD Home Detail
Don't worry folks. All this Defund the Police stuff is for the proles. It means that when someone breaks into your home, you'll have a social worker respond the next day and tell you to check your privilege and urge you to donate to charities for the underprivileged.
The nomenklatura will have protection, whether it's private security for guys like Jeff Bezos, or private police details for political bosses.
While LA City Council President Nury Martinez was filing a motion last week seeking to cut $150 million from the LAPD budget, she had an LAPD unit standing watch outside her home providing her family with a private security detail since April.
The round-the-clock protection unit, often staffed by two officers, infuriated some members of the police force when Martinez introduced the motion, which reads in part:
“We need a vision for our city that says ‘there is going to be justice.’ American society is founded on a racial hierarchy, one that is born out of slavery, followed by Jim Crow segregation and corporate abuse of labor. As such, police departments are asked to enforce a system of laws that are designed to reinforce and maintain economic and racial inequality.”
McBride, who has been in law enforcement for 30 years, spent more than five years at the LAPD’s Foothill Division, which serves Martinez’s district in the San Fernando Valley.
“It’s kind of ironic. Here she is demanding $150 million be reallocated from the police budget, but yet she has security at her house by the Los Angeles Police Department,” said Det. Jamie McBride, who serves as director of the Los Angeles Police Protective League, the LAPD’s union.
Were there failures to respond to calls from citizens because Nury Martinez had to be protected? But that's just how it is.
The city, county, and state bosses are not about to give up their security. They want you to give up your security.
Don't worry folks. All this Defund the Police stuff is for the proles. It means that when someone breaks into your home, you'll have a social worker respond the next day and tell you to check your privilege and urge you to donate to charities for the underprivileged.
The nomenklatura will have protection, whether it's private security for guys like Jeff Bezos, or private police details for political bosses.
While LA City Council President Nury Martinez was filing a motion last week seeking to cut $150 million from the LAPD budget, she had an LAPD unit standing watch outside her home providing her family with a private security detail since April.The round-the-clock protection unit, often staffed by two officers, infuriated some members of the police force when Martinez introduced the motion, which reads in part:“We need a vision for our city that says ‘there is going to be justice.’ American society is founded on a racial hierarchy, one that is born out of slavery, followed by Jim Crow segregation and corporate abuse of labor. As such, police departments are asked to enforce a system of laws that are designed to reinforce and maintain economic and racial inequality.”McBride, who has been in law enforcement for 30 years, spent more than five years at the LAPD’s Foothill Division, which serves Martinez’s district in the San Fernando Valley.“It’s kind of ironic. Here she is demanding $150 million be reallocated from the police budget, but yet she has security at her house by the Los Angeles Police Department,” said Det. Jamie McBride, who serves as director of the Los Angeles Police Protective League, the LAPD’s union.
Were there failures to respond to calls from citizens because Nury Martinez had to be protected? But that's just how it is.
The city, county, and state bosses are not about to give up their security. They want you to give up your security.
LA city official under fire for using LAPD as her 'personal security' to guard her home for two months at a cost of $100,000 - while she filed a motion to cut the police department's budget by $150 million
- LA City Council President Nury Martinez joined other council members last week in demanding $150 million be cut from the LAPD's budget
- Martinez has been slammed after it emerged LAPD cops were stationed outside her home at the same time she called for the force to be defunded
- Her family has been receiving 24/7 round-the-clock guard since April 4, lowered to 7 a.m. to 9 p.m. guard from May 6, with regular checks through the night
- The security detail has cost the city an estimated $100,000
- It comes as the city's budget was already strained amid the COVID-19 pandemic
- Jamie McBride, director of the LAPD union Los Angeles Police Protective League Detective, slammed Martinez's actions as 'disgusting'
- The motion to defund the LAPD comes amid widespread calls for police forces to be defunded and disbanded following the death of George Floyd
A Los Angeles city official has come under fire for using the LAPD as her 'personal security' for the last two months at a cost of $100,000 to the city, while she has filed a motion to cut the police department's budget by $150 million.
LA City Council President Nury Martinez has been slammed after it emerged LAPD cops were stationed outside her home at the same time she was introducing the motion calling for the force to be defunded.
Martinez joined other council members Herb Wesson, Curren Price and Monica Rodriguez last week in demanding millions of dollars be cut from the LAPD's budget, amid widespread calls for police forces across America to be disbanded and replaced by alternative community measures following the death of George Floyd at the hands of cops in Minneapolis.
'We need a vision for our city that says "there is going to be justice." American society is founded on a racial hierarchy, one that is born out of slavery, followed by Jim Crow segregation and corporate abuse of labor,' the motion reads.
LA City Council President Nury Martinez (pictured) has been slammed after it emerged LAPD cops were stationed outside her home at the same time she was introducing the motion calling for the force to be defunded
'As such, police departments are asked to enforce a system of laws that are designed to reinforce and maintain economic and racial inequality.'
Jamie McBride, director of the LAPD union Los Angeles Police Protective League Detective, slammed Martinez's actions as 'disgusting' as he estimated the security set the city back a staggering $100,000 - at a time when it is in the midst of a budget crisis due to the coronavirus pandemic.
'It's disgusting. For two officers in front of a residence since April, you're probably over $100,000 of the people's money,' McBride told Spectrum News 1.
'It's kind of ironic. Here she is demanding $150 million be reallocated from the police budget, but yet she has security at her house by the Los Angeles Police Department.'
McBride said Martinez should have hired private security instead of using taxpayer money to protect her and her family.
The city council leader first began receiving round-the-clock guard, usually with two cops stationed outside her home 24 hours a day, back on April 4, according to Spectrum.
A spokesman for Martinez told Spectrum the security was put in place after Martinez and her daughter had received death threats.
From May 6, the 24/7 coverage was then lowered to cops standing guard from 7 a.m. to 9 p.m., with regular patrol checks throughout the night.
Cops are seen stationed outside Martinez's house. LA City Council President Nury Martinez filed a motion last week in demanding $150 million be cut from the LAPD's budget
Martinez has been slammed after it emerged LAPD cops were stationed outside her home (pictured) at the same time she called for the force to be defunded. The security detail has cost the city an estimated $100,000
Jamie McBride, director of the LAPD union Los Angeles Police Protective League, slammed Martinez's actions as 'disgusting'
The private security only came to an end Thursday night when Spectrum said it contacted Martinez's office over the claims.
Martinez's spokesman told Spectrum the detail had been axed because the security being made public meant the protection was then compromised.
However, McBride told Spectrum if the threat was credible the security would have been kept in place.
DailyMail.com reached out to Martinez's office for comment.
Calls are mounting across the nation for police forces to be defunded or dismantled altogether after Floyd's death sparked protests calling for an end to police brutality and racism.
Floyd died on Memorial Day when white cop Derek Chauvin knelt on his neck for almost nine minutes while the black man begged him to stop and gasped 'I can't breathe'.
A cut of $150 million from the LAPD would work out at around to eight percent of the force's annual budget of around $3.1 billion.
On Wednesday LA Mayor Eric Garcetti agreed to redirect $250 million from the department and other city programs towards youth jobs, health initiatives and 'peace centers' for the black community.
Garcetti angered the force on announcing the news and came under fire for saying LAPD cops were 'killers' in a speech last Thursday.
'[Reform] starts someplace, and we say we are going to be who we want to be, or we're going to continue being the killers that we are,' Garcetti said in a speech at First African Methodist Episcopal Church.
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