Artists sign open letter to defund the police

Sign letter here

Lizzo, The Weeknd and John Legend have all signed an open letter in response to the murder of George Floyd.

They call for police defunding stating;

“The United States does not have a national healthcare system. Instead, we have the largest military budget in the world, and some of the most well-funded and militarized police departments in the world, too. Policing and militarization overwhelmingly dominate the bulk of national and local budgets. In fact, police and military funding has increased every single year since 1973, and at the same time, funding for public health decreased every year, crystallized most recently when the Trump administration eliminated the US Pandemic Response Team in 2018, citing “costs”.”

You can read and sign the letter at the link here.

Black Lives Matter also have a petition to Defund the Police you can sign here.