{"id":966392,"date":"2021-11-04T08:43:32","date_gmt":"2021-11-04T12:43:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=966392"},"modified":"2021-11-04T08:49:21","modified_gmt":"2021-11-04T12:49:21","slug":"black-lives-matter-activist-elected-to-des-moines-city-council-says-she-wants-to-defund-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/black-lives-matter-activist-elected-to-des-moines-city-council-says-she-wants-to-defund-police\/","title":{"rendered":"Black Lives Matter Activist Elected to Des Moines City Council, Says She Wants to Defund Police"},"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\">32<\/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-activist-elected-to-des-moines-city-council-says-she-wants-to-defund-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=966392&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 readability=\"56.814692982456\">\n<div id=\"attachment_664705\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-664705\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-664705\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/0-428.jpg\" alt width=\"800\" height=\"523\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-664705\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Indira Sheumaker<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h3>A Black Lives Matter activist who wants to defund the police was elected to the Des Moines City Council on Tuesday.<\/h3>\n<p>The Des Moines Black Liberation Movement activist, Indira Sheumaker, ousted incumbent Bill Gray who had been serving since 2014.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the popular rejection of the far left\u2019s desire to defund the police, the Iowa activist still plans to try and do just that.<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"8\">\n<p>\u201cWe just won our campaign on a platform centered on Defunding the Police for Safety and Justice. It can be done. My goal for this city has always been to work from the bottom up. Not the top down,\u201d Sheumaker said in a statement released on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"article-extras trending\">\n<strong>TRENDING:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thegatewaypundit.com\/2021\/11\/new-jersey-governor-race-called-democrat-murphy-20000-votes-mysteriously-gained-40000-ballots-overnight\/\" data-type=\"Internal link\" data-type-location=\"in-content-trending\">New Jersey Governor Race Called for Democrat Murphy by 20,000 Votes After He Mysteriously Gained 40,000 Ballots Overnight<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe won on defund because people were inspired by our message, they wanted somebody who wasn\u2019t afraid,\u201d she wrote in a tweet.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" readability=\"6.5612903225806\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Indira Sheumaker for the People, official statement on Election Night <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ialg8MN9cv\">pic.twitter.com\/ialg8MN9cv<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Indira for City Council (@Indira4DSM) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Indira4DSM\/status\/1455733252048699392\">November 3, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The leftist activist raised $30,000 since February.<\/p>\n<p>In Minneapolis, where George Floyd died in police custody, voters rejected a ballot question on dissolving the police department and forming a Department of Public Safety.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div readability=\"13.435897435897\">\nHello Commenters!<\/p>\n<p>The Gateway Pundit is always committed to ensuring your voice can and will be heard. 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