A group of D.C. protesters now has a list of demands......

[carolina73]

They can demand all they want.
We can laugh at them all we want.

[MMC]

They can demand all they want.
We can laugh at them all we want.

Wait to see the look on their faces when they find out who has to pay to form their government if given statehood. Now that will be funny.

[Chris]

It is gradually becoming the mainstream position of the Democrat Party to defund and even eliminate police forces across the country.

Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti, City Officials Cutting $100 Million-$150 Million From LAPD Budget, Funds To Be Reinvested In Communities Of Color: “so we can invest in jobs, in education and healing.”

More of the same old failed solutions/promises/gestures.

[carolina73]

And look at the magnitude of their problem. It isn't a problem.
Here comes "One life is too many"

https://www.statista.com/statistics/...olice-by-race/

[Tahuyaman]

Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti, City Officials Cutting $100 Million-$150 Million From LAPD Budget, Funds To Be Reinvested In Communities Of Color: “so we can invest in jobs, in education and healing.”

More of the same old failed solutions/promises/gestures.

That’ll work. How will order be maintained in these communities? Who’s going to ensure these people can remain safe and secure in these communities?

Actually, this would be the time to increase funds to the police and use those additional funds to restore training programs which have been cut to the bone.

[carolina73]

Wait to see the look on their faces when they find out who has to pay to form their government if given statehood. Now that will be funny.

It won't happen. The concept of DC was not to belong to a state or to a political party. We also are not going to give Democrats 2 more Senators + Romney.

[Peter1469]

Gotta toss in the legal weed demand!

As protests continue to erupt around the country, a group of three young African-American activists is attempting to link the demonstrations to a list of demands.


The group, Concerned Citizens, has emerged from the nation’s capital, a hotbed of the protests that began following the death of George Floyd, a black man who died after he was taken into police custody in Minneapolis on May 25. The group’s three leading organizers, Aalayah Eastmond, 19, Seun Babalola, 22, and Ty Hobson-Powell, 24, plan to unveil their demands, which they shared exclusively with Yahoo News, at a protest in Washington on Wednesday afternoon.


Their list of 10 demands, which the group is set to announce at Lafayette Park across from the White House at 4 p.m. on Wednesday, includes police, criminal justice and government reforms at both the national and local levels, charges for all four officers involved in Floyd’s death, decriminalization of marijuana and statehood for the District of Columbia. They are also asking for charges against those responsible for the death of Breonna Taylor, who was killed on March 13 when police stormed her home and shot her during a drug investigation.


“We are simply concerned citizens of Washington, D.C. We want to bring organization to the White House protests while bringing us all under a common goal,” an introductory statement accompanying the list said. “Seeing as all of us as protesters want justice, we the people have formed a list of demands that we would like both the local D.C. municipality as well as the federal government to address with swift action.”.....snip~


https://www.yahoo.com/news/a-group-o...194927666.html



Well there you have it.....their list of Demands. Justice For Floyd takes a back seat to the rest of their demands.

[Mister D]

Gotta toss in the legal weed demand!

That will keep the black people out of prison.

[Peter1469]

Advocating for DC statehood is a reasonable response to the way the protests are being handled. We have a bunch of unidentified federal law enforcement personnel actively involved in the response to the protests, over the objections of District government. As everyone is aware, the actions against peaceful protesters to clear Lafayette Park for Trump's bible photo op was an entirely federal response, overriding the District. None of this could have happened if DC were a state, as it should be.

DC should not be a state. DC was created out of Maryland and Virginia. Virginia got its part of DC back in 1847. Maryland should follow the same process. There is no way we are going to give the Dems two radical hard left Senators with statehood.

[Tahuyaman]

There’s no reason for DC to be granted statehood.