Chicago Police Must Not Arm with Military Assault Rifles

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Chicago Police Must Not Be Armed with the Colt M4 Assault Rifle

Major Richard M. Daley and the Superintendent of Police, Jody Weis, are trying to equip Chicago police officers with M4 assault rifles. We, the people of Chicago, and our allies around the nation and world, need for Colt M4 assault rifles to not be in police hands and are against the militarization of the Chicago Police Department, our youth, and our low-income communities of color. We submit this petition to Major Richard M. Daley, Superintendent of Police Jody Weis, President of the Chicago Police Board Demetrius B. Carney and Alderman Isaac Carothers to demand a public meeting and their full support to prevent this proposal. We will continue our nonviolent direct action campaign to stop the purchase of these weapons and hold public funding and policy accountable for priorities like education, youth programs, jobs, and other human rights for all!

311 Signatures

  • Paradise Gray
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  • Ahlam Jbara
  • Jo Ann Franklin
  • Ashley Wooten
  • Darlene Horton
    • Comments
    • Stop the Violence!!
  • Astar Herndon
  • Amisha Patel
  • Bianca Bulliner
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    • В
  • margarine white
  • Zakeya N. Cartman
  • Eric Tellez
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    • В
  • John Hayes
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  • Meron Kahssai
  • Jonathan L. Lewis
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    • I am u, u am I
  • jasiri x
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    • В
  • Gail T. Smith
  • Permelia Tyler
  • Jonathan Peck
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    • Its time to put Youth First! Fund Schools, Jobs, Health and Wellness, and Youth and Family Community Centers and Programs Not Jails, Guns and Increased Militarization of our Communities!
  • Kenneth King
  • Wayne Owens
  • Bekezela Mguni
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    • we don't need the police to have more weapons that end up being used against the people they are SUPPOSED to protect. I don't believe that we even need to rely on the police because they are consistently criminalizing communities of color and poor people and then being violent towards them out of racism and fear. They need to be stripped of all weapons because that is not their role. Many other countries don't provide their police officers with guns, the US needs to look at what the causes of all the violence really is and its not random or incidental. It is systematic and it needs to start with changing the police system that was built on criminalizing and abusing people of color and poor people.
  • Marnie Binfield
  • Isabel Anadon
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    • В
  • Karen L. Morton
  • sokoni karanja
  • Glen Thomas
  • jennifer edwards
    • Comments
    • jennyedwards2005@yahoo.com
  • Sheba Kane Lo
  • Gail Nunnally
  • Kaitlin Klipsch
  • Gregory Jones
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    • School books not guns
  • Maria Whiteman Coar
  • Kristine Neal
  • Liben Workneh
  • Corree Hamilton
  • Angela Wilson
  • harish Patel
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    • thank you
  • Rabbi Joshua Salter
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    • No M4
  • Elizabeth Nofziger
  • Sandra Babcock
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    • These weapons pose a danger to innocent civilians and police alike.
  • Olivia Carberry
  • Jenine Wehbeh
    • Comments
    • stop the violence!
  • Catherine Peterson
  • ranya hassan
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    • I fear the consequences our communities will face if these weapons will be used by police officers on the public streets of Chicago.
  • Lydia Cluck
  • Melinda Mason
  • Beverly Harmon
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    • No Assault Rifles necessary!!!!
  • Catrina Kim
  • Ariel Liu
  • Katie Tu