Pro-BLM students demand abolition of police at UC Irvine

Pro-BLM students demand abolition of police at UC Irvine

• The University of California, Irvine Black Student Union held a protest Friday calling for a total and complete ban on the UC Irvine Police Department.
• Protesters held signs reading "Blue Lives Don't Matter," "Police Kill the Mentally Ill," and "F**k the Police."
  The University of California, Irvine Black Student Union held a protest Friday calling for a total and complete ban on the UC Irvine Police Department.
  The protest was in response to UC Irvine’s “New Narratives” forum, where LAPD Chief Charlie Beck was leading a talk on policebrutality and race.
  According to the website, the event is designed to “bring together leading scholars and innovative practitioners to define the problem, identify challenges, and discuss possible solutions to [police brutality.]
  Protesters held blood-spattered signs that said “Blue Lives Don’t Matter,” “Police Kill the Mentally Ill,” and “Fuck the Police.” 
• In a video obtained by Campus Reform, protestors can be heard chanting “Rise up, resist, put those killer cops in jail, the whole damn system is guilty as hell,” as they marched around campus.
  Additionally, Black Student Union activists called for their peers to sign a petition demanding that UC Irvine ban the campus police department. 
• Protesters also called for the immediate firing of LAPD Chief Beck on the grounds of “police brutality.”
  On the official event Facebook page, organizers even decided to sell official Black Student Union “Fuck the Police” shirts and sweatshirts to wear to the protest.
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