Following former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin being found guilty on all three charges for the death of George Floyd, Black Lives Matter’s Los Angeles told followers to gather outside Mayor Eric Garcetti’s home, according to the Daily Wire.
Relieved by the guilty verdict AND...
— #BlackLivesMatter-LA (@BLMLA) April 20, 2021
Justice for #GeorgeFloyd required that we #ReimaginePublicSafety and #DefundThePolice. Meet us in front of the Mayor’s mansion RIGHT NOW.
(Google Getty House Los Angeles for street address.) #BlackLivesMatter
The activist group tweeted, "Relieved by the guilty verdict AND…Justice for #GeorgeFloyd required that we #ReimaginePublicSafety and #DefundThePolice. Meet us in front of the Mayor’s mansion RIGHT NOW," and then told activists to "Google Getty House Los Angeles for street address." The Getty House is the residence for the mayor of Los Angeles.
#ChauvinTrial #LA: Celebration of verdict outside home of @MayorOfLA as @BLMLA demands @ericgarcetti defund the #LAPD. Coming up live at 6pm on @NBCLA. pic.twitter.com/KDFdD9YcLC
— Robert Kovacik (@RobertNBCLA) April 21, 2021
NBC LA reporter Robert Kovacik tweeted a video from the BLM demonstration outside the residence. "Celebration of verdict outside home of @MayorOfLA as @BLMLA demand @ericgarcetti defend the #LAPD."
All clear: it remained peaceful as many shared their thoughts on Garcetti’s budget and how much is going to LAPD. Only four police officers were seen and stayed off to the side pic.twitter.com/nw4C6CBQKo
— Jada Montemarano (@JadaMontemarano) April 21, 2021
Mayor Garcetti proposed cutting the budget of the LAPD after BLM led a massive protest outside of his home on June 2. The City Council in 2020 voted to defund the LAPD by $150 million.
The electric slide with a side of “f*** Garcetti” pic.twitter.com/td1RDDGPXE
— Libby Denkmann (@libdenk) June 3, 2020
The Mayor appears to have changed his mind in response to the ongoing violence and spikes in crime in the city and released his budget on Tuesday, which according to the Los Angeles Times, proposes "a slight increase in funding for the city’s Police Department for the upcoming budget year, disappointing advocates who have called for the agency’s defunding."
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