{"id":1978766,"date":"2023-07-20T17:11:02","date_gmt":"2023-07-20T21:11:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/black-lives-matter-and-cori-bush-pay-for-private-security-now-theyre-teaming-up-to-defund-the-police\/"},"modified":"2023-07-20T17:13:31","modified_gmt":"2023-07-20T21:13:31","slug":"black-lives-matter-and-cori-bush-pay-for-private-security-now-theyre-teaming-up-to-defund-the-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/black-lives-matter-and-cori-bush-pay-for-private-security-now-theyre-teaming-up-to-defund-the-police\/","title":{"rendered":"BLM &#038; Cori Bush: Private Security Paid, Now Pushing Police Defunding."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fblack-lives-matter-and-cori-bush-pay-for-private-security-now-theyre-teaming-up-to-defund-the-police%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1978766&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Rep. Cori \u200bBush\u200b Unveils Plan to Defund the Police<\/h2>\n<blockquote>\n<figure><figcaption>Rep. Cori Bush unveils\u200c her plan to defund the police \u200b(Twitter).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div>\n<p>A Black Lives Matter leader on\u2062 Tuesday heaped praise upon Representative Cori Bush (D., Mo.), a member of the &#8220;Squad&#8221; who employs expensive\u200b private security guards, for introducing a plan to defund the police.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/stopthebigboxbaitandswitch.com\/?utm_source=freebeacon&#038;utm_medium=advertising&#038;utm_campaign=2023\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/stopthebigboxbaitandswitch.com\/?utm_source=freebeacon&#038;utm_medium=advertising&#038;utm_campaign=2023\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<h3>Black Lives \u2064Matter Leader Praises \u200dBush&#8217;s Plan<\/h3>\n<p>Bush\u2064 teared up as Shalomyah Bowers, a member\u2063 of the \u200dBlack Lives Matter Global Network Foundation board of directors, called \u2063her a &#8220;brilliant&#8221; \u200dand &#8220;strategic leader&#8221; for reintroducing the People\u2019s Response Act, a measure that would \u200c <a href=\"https:\/\/bush.house.gov\/media\/press-releases\/icymi-rep-cori-bush-wants-to-transform-policing-and-public-safety-with-new-bill\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">fund<\/a> unarmed social workers to\u200c respond to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-administration-splits-with-progressive-groups-sides-with-cops-in-supreme-court-case\/\" title=\"Biden Administration Splits with Progressive Groups, Sides with Cops in Supreme Court Case\">mental health emergencies<\/a> instead of police. Bowers said the bill was a critical step in upending &#8220;a law enforcement model that harms our communities&#8221; and abolishing the\u2062 &#8220;prison complex&#8221; designed to &#8220;tear down\u2062 black families.&#8221; Bush <a href=\"https:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/bush-pressley-push-bill-end-211406510.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a> her bill would prevent &#8220;thousands of\u200d deaths and abuses&#8221; of black people at the hands\u2063 of \u200cpolice.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<h3>Private\u2062 Security \u2062and\u200d Financial\u200c Scandals<\/h3>\n<p>Neither Bush nor Bowers \u2063will have reason to fear for their \u200csafety should they succeed in abolishing the\u200c police. Bush has <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/democrats\/the-squad-has-spent-over-1-million-on-private-security-while-pushing-to-defund-the-police\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">paid<\/a> over $680,000 on a crackpot private security \u200dteam since 2019 that includes <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/democrats\/meet-the-anti-semitic-spiritual-guru-on-cori-bushs-payroll\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Nathaniel Davis III<\/a>, a\u200b self-proclaimed master of psychic self-defense who \u2064can \u200csummon tornadoes with his\u2063 hate, and Bush&#8217;s husband, Cortney Merritts. Black \u200cLives Matter \u2062spent $1.7 million on &#8220;professional security\u2062 services&#8221; for its leaders in 2022, the charity reported in May.<\/p>\n<p>Bowers\u2019s appearance at Bush\u2019s press conference comes as Black Lives \u200dMatter \u200cseeks to rehabilitate\u2064 its image following a series \u200bof financial scandals. Black \u2062Lives Matter <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/democrats\/black-lives-matter-hemorrhaged-cash-in-2022-tax-documents-show\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">revealed<\/a> in May that \u200bit lost $8.5 million and saw the value \u2062of its investment \u200daccounts plummet by nearly\u200b $10 million in 2022, but that didn\u2019t stop\u2064 it from doling out\u2063 $1.6 \u200bmillion to Bowers\u2019s consulting firm that year.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<h3>Black Lives Matter&#8217;s 10-Year Anniversary<\/h3>\n<p>Black\u200d Lives Matter <a href=\"https:\/\/blacklivesmatter.com\/ahead-of-10-year-anniversary-black-lives-matter-releases-new-defund-the-police-ad-and-announces-proclamation-for-new-national-day\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">celebrated<\/a> its 10-year anniversary\u2062 on July \u200c13 with\u200c a week-long &#8220;Defund The Police&#8221; ad campaign equating \u200dpolice to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/solar-industrys-reliance-on-chinese-forced-labor-threatens-bidens-green-economy\/\" title=\"Solar Industry\u2019s Reliance on Chinese Forced Labor Threatens Biden\u2019s Green Economy\">modern-day slavery<\/a>\u200b for black people.\u200b The campaign &#8220;will highlight the numerous reasons why funding the police\u200b doesn\u2019t work\u2014why \u2062militarizing the police doesn\u2019t work, and why <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/black-lives-matter-and-cori-bush-pay-for-private-security-now-theyre-teaming-up-to-defund-the-police\/\" title=\"BLM &#038; Cori Bush: Private Security Paid, Now Pushing Police Defunding.\">state-sanctioned violence enforces \u2063modern forms<\/a> of slavery for Black people,&#8221; Black Lives\u200b Matter said on its website.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<h3>Pressley&#8217;s Statement\u200b and Angela Davis<\/h3>\n<p>Bush\u2019s fellow &#8220;Squad&#8221; member, Rep. \u2062Ayanna \u2062Pressley (D., Mass.) was also at the Tuesday press conference, where she equated policing \u2062to &#8220;policy \u200bviolence that \u2063is literally killing our people.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>To \u2063help make \u200dher point, Pressley\u200c called upon \u200bthe \u200cwords of radical\u2064 communist activist \u2062Angela Davis.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/stopthebigboxbaitandswitch.com\/?utm_source=freebeacon&#038;utm_medium=advertising&#038;utm_campaign=2023\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/stopthebigboxbaitandswitch.com\/?utm_source=freebeacon&#038;utm_medium=advertising&#038;utm_campaign=2023\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<h3>Angela Davis&#8217;s Controversial History<\/h3>\n<p>Davis knows a \u2062thing\u200b or two about violence. She <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/democrats\/congressional-group-to-host-event-celebrating-renowned-activist-angela-davis\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">vigorously<\/a> defended communist dictators during the Cold \u2063War, justified the actions of a Palestinian terrorist who \u2063bombed an Israeli grocery store in 1969,\u2062 and defended her fellow Black Panthers\u2062 who\u2062 tortured and killed a 19-year-old that\u2063 same year. Davis earned herself a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fbi.gov\/wanted\/topten\/topten-history\/hires_images\/FBI-309-AngelaYvonneDavis.jpg\/view\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">place<\/a> \u200c on the FBI\u2019s Most Wanted list in 1970 after weapons she owned were used in a Black Panther terrorist attack\u2064 at the Martin County Civic Center in California that resulted in\u200d the deaths of four people including a judge. \u2063A sympathetic all-white jury <a href=\"https:\/\/forward.com\/opinion\/417302\/angela-davis-human-rights-activist\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">acquitted<\/a> Davis in 1972.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;For too long policing and incarceration have destabilized families, \u200bhave ravaged our communities robbing us of countless black\u2063 and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/woke-detergent-company-calls-to-defund-police-says-george-floyd-was-murdered-and-that-white-supremacy-embedded-in-our-country\/\" title=\"Woke Detergent Company Calls To Defund Police, Says George Floyd Was Murdered, And That White Supremacy \u2018Embedded In Our Country\u2019\">brown lives<\/a>,&#8221; Pressley said. &#8220;In the words \u200dof Angela Y. Davis, prisons do not\u200d disappear social\u200d problems,\u2062 they disappear people.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Black Lives Matter movement, commended Rep. Cori Bush for her proposal to defund the police. Despite employing private security guards, Bush&#8217;s plan received praise from Bowers. 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