Hamilton College student leaders work to ‘defund the police,’ claim ‘white supremacists’ are on campus

Hamilton College student leaders work to ‘defund the police,’ claim ‘white supremacists’ are on campus

• ‘Basically for them, a white supremacist is anyone who disagrees with their agenda’

"Following the verdict in the Derek Chauvin trial, students and faculty at Hamilton College received an email denoting some of them as white supremacists and calling for the admissions office to better block such students from enrolling in the future.

It was part of a larger push to grow a “defund the police” effort at the private, New York college.

• “We believe in a better world where community safety means community, rehabilitation, and restorative justice. And we will fight for it,” the email reads in part.
• “Racist (not ‘racialized’) American policing should be the one on trial. And it’s guilty. Derek Chauvin was a sacrificial lamb for police across the country to avoid any measure of reform or systemic change,” they wrote. 
• “Even now, Democratic and Republican officials alike admit that this verdict reduces the pressure on them to take action. We can’t let up. We need to defund the police.”...Read all.