{"id":865258,"date":"2021-10-10T15:58:58","date_gmt":"2021-10-10T19:58:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=865258"},"modified":"2021-10-10T15:59:01","modified_gmt":"2021-10-10T19:59:01","slug":"leo-terrell-lauds-morgan-freeman-for-saying-no-to-defund-the-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/leo-terrell-lauds-morgan-freeman-for-saying-no-to-defund-the-police\/","title":{"rendered":"Leo Terrell Lauds Morgan Freeman For Saying No To \u2018Defund The Police\u2019"},"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\">24<\/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%2Fleo-terrell-lauds-morgan-freeman-for-saying-no-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=865258&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--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/1552D7C1-A3D0-4CB4-BA5F-5E4E585E673C-scaled-e1633895721632.jpeg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.3.0\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Appearing on \u201cFox &amp; Friends Weekend,\u201d civil rights attorney and Fox News contributor Leo Terrell <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\/leo-terrell-applauds-morgan-freemans-opposition-defund-the-police-movement\">lauded<\/a> actor Morgan Freeman over the actor\u2019s public stance against defunding the police.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWell, you know, I hope he has plenty of job security and financial stability because he\u2019s going to be attacked by \u2026 Cori Bush and the Left,\u201d Terrell said, referencing Rep. Cori Bush (D-MO), a radical member of \u201cthe Squad.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Terrell continued, saying it troubles him that there are some who believe all \u201cblack people think the same way,\u201d and that they all \u201chate the police,\u201d when in reality, \u201cDemocratic cities, people of color, of all color, they want the police.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"11\">\n<p><em>Morgan Freeman is in that Hollywood elite, so he\u2019s going to get some blowback. I applaud him for speaking out because it shatters this ridiculous concept that we think alike; we all hate the police. We don\u2019t hate the police. We love the police because 98% of them \u2026 maybe 99%, they protect us 24\/7. When we\u2019re asleep at night, they\u2019re out there protecting us.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" readability=\"10.468085106383\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">LEO TERRELL: \u201cThe Democrats want to play the \u2018hate the police\u2019 card game. They blocked Trump when trying to get police reform done, now they won\u2019t pass any. They like the police issue, they like to keep it alive. It\u2019s a sickening game.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/en0CA4DOHK\">pic.twitter.com\/en0CA4DOHK<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Martin Golobi\u010d (@martingolobich) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/martingolobich\/status\/1447246124230881282?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 10, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>During a recent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.blackenterprise.com\/morgan-freeman-executive-produced-film-examines-death-of-black-veteran-killed-by-police\/?test=prebid\">interview<\/a> regarding a film he executive produced based on the true story of Kenneth Chamberlain, Morgan Freeman was asked by Selena Hill of Black Enterprise about his position on police.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI heard you say in the past, Mr. Freeman, that you are not actually for defunding police, but more so for a transformation,\u201d Hill said. \u201cCan you just clarify what your stance [is]?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m not in the least bit for defunding the police,\u201d Freeman replied. \u201cPolice work is, aside from all the negativity around it, it is very necessary for us to have them and most of them are guys that are doing their job. They\u2019re going about their day-to-day jobs. [There are] some policemen who would never even pull their guns except, you know, [on the] range, that sort of thing. I don\u2019t know.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Prior to that question, Freeman had stated that he believes policing should be reformed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe big hope is that there\u2019ll be a big push for police reform. Policing as we have known it, I guess since the beginning of policing in this country, has not been a merciful operation, particularly in the black community,\u201d Freeman said. \u201cAnd the poorer the community, the more chance there is gonna be of people being shot and killed for little or no reason.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The actor then spoke about his involvement in an initiative in the law department at the University of Mississippi that is \u201cgoing to address this issue.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to a June <a href=\"https:\/\/news.olemiss.edu\/um-receives-1m-to-study-evidence-based-policing-reform\/\">news release<\/a> from the university:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"7\">\n<p><em>Actor Morgan Freeman and criminal justice and legal studies professor Linda Keena have donated $1 million to establish the Center for Evidence-Based Policing and Reform at the University of Mississippi\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The goal of the project, according to the news release, is multifaceted, \u201cbeginning with training for police and other law enforcement,\u201d and \u201cusing evidence-based practices that allow officers to be more proactive,\u201d in addition to other objectives.<\/p>\n<p><i>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\">member<\/a>.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Appearing on \u201cFox &#038; Friends Weekend,\u201d civil rights attorney and Fox News contributor Leo Terrell lauded actor Morgan Freeman over the actor\u2019s public stance against defunding the police.\u201cWell, you know, &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-865258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/865258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=865258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/865258\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=865258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=865258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=865258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}