A ratbag group of cop-hatingBlack Lives Matters activistswere handed the floor at City Hall as they launched a campaign to block extra funding to hire more police in Los Angeles.
Everyday Angelenos were left frustrated as they were locked out of the first public budget hearing — while lefty activists led by Black Lives Matter–Los Angeles and People’s Budget LA were given 20 minutes to air their radical views.
At stake is the city’s$14.9 billion budget, the single most consequential decision City Hall makes each year.
The group, led Friday by Melina Abdullah, demanded the council shift funding from policing and into community-based social services.
They are the same activistspreviously documentedby The California Post shutting down public meetings.
They are furious about Karen Bass’sproposal to hire 510 policeofficers – despite critics saying all she is doing is replacing departing staff, and highlighting the department’s ongoing staffing crisis.
Abdullah claimed her coalition, formed in 2020, wanted a “people’s budget” shaped by community input, sharply reducing police funding and redirecting billions toward housing, mental health care, and social services.
Inside the chamber, officers assigned to secure the room were required to stand watch as the activist presentation, and hours of public comment that followed, much of it calling for cutting or eliminating police.
The Los Angeles Police Protective League blasted the decision to have them lead the budget proceedings.
“To think, just a few days ago the People’s Budget mastermind Melina Abdullah was tossing miniature toy pigs over a fence at our office and now she will present her confirmation bias-riddled sham of a defund the police budget to the city council—well, it just warms our hearts,” the union said.
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