The NFL funds groups that openly advocate for defunding the police. Through the Inspire Change program, funded by the League, the NFL backs the Vera Institute of Justice, the Oregon Justice Resource Center, and the Community Justice Exchange. Each of these support defunding or even abolishing police.
Fox Business uncovered that the NFL gave $300,000 to the Oregon Justice Resource Center, which has called for police defunding as well as other social justice measures. The OJRC has ties to Antifa, with one of their prominent lawyers, Juan Chavez, representing violent Rose City Antifa member Luis Marquez. The organization also represents Cider Riot, the now-closed Portland pub that hosted Antifa events and was the site of a riot in 2019.
Marquez is being represented by Juan Chavez of Ore Justice Resource Center, the same activist firm & attorney representing Cider Riot in the $1m suit against Joey Gibson + others. Cider Riot has hosted antifa events & was site of riot where I was attacked. https://t.co/CO4ebp1rlQ
— Andy Ngô ???? (@MrAndyNgo) June 4, 2019
In October of this year, Chavez appeared to express disappointment that one of the militants who attacked journalist Andy Ngo was indicted by a grand jury in Portland, Ore.
How many assaults and menacing charges has MCDA and PPB passed over because the victim didn’t have a grip on the pituitary glands of vicious 8chan trolls.
— Juan C Chavez (@inafutureage) October 29, 2021
1. Defund the police
— Oregon Justice Resource Center (@OJRCenter) June 10, 2020
2. Demilitarize communities
3. Remove police from schools
4. Free people from prisons and jails
5. Repeal laws that criminalize survival
6. Invest in community self-governance
7. Provide safe housing for everyone
8. Invest in care, not cops #8toabolition
The Vera Institute of Justice advocates for the abolishment of prisons, and for language changes to be put into effect in order to not "dehumanize" criminals.
Convict. Criminal. Felon. Illegal immigrant. Prisoner.
— Vera Institute of Justice (@verainstitute) December 8, 2021
Defining someone by a past act strips them of their full humanity and capacity for growth. This language is dangerous; it can dehumanize entire groups of people—promoting stereotypes and stoking fear: https://t.co/CYm2G5We11
The Community Justice Exchange is opposed to police, prisons, and alternative systems to hold and track those who commit crimes. The Community Justice Exchange also runs the National Bail Fund Network, which runs the Minnesota Freedom Fund, which bails out rioters, domestic abusers, and others who participated in the violent civil unrest in the US during the summer of 2020.
Join us in pushing back against so-called "alternatives" and in the fight for freedom and for abolition.
— Community Justice Exchange (@CommJusticeExch) November 16, 2020
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The NFL has been funding Vera Institute for Justice and Community Justice Exchange since 2020, while Oregon Justice Resource Center only started receiving funding this year.
Inspire Change was created by the NFL, players and clubs, per their website, "as part of an ongoing acknowledgement of the ways that systemic racism contributes to barriers to opportunity and equality."
Inspire Change funds dozens of organizations, including City Year, Boys & Girls Clubs of America, and others. The NFL has committed to spending $250 million on social justice causes. Their reasoning is to combat "systemic racism" fight "the battle against the ongoing and historic injustices faced by African Americans."
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