Sylvia Bennett-Stone, who lost her daughter to armed violence in 2004, spoke out against the movement to take money from the police on Friday, saying she often wonders if her daughter would still be alive if the police were there to to help.
“What if the police were there?” Bennett-Stone asked during an appearance on “Fox and Friends”.
“[Defunding the police] it will only result in more violence in our neighborhoods, we want to see the police reformed, we want police officers to be held responsible, not to remove them, ”he said.
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Bennett-Stone, the director of Voices of Black Mothers United, said that the crime of blacks against blacks in communities is happening by the “dozens” and that people prefer to talk about the eviction of the police.
“How many more children will have to die before we have this conversation,” said Bennett-Stone.
Bennett-Stone’s daughter, Krystal, 19, was filling up with his girlfriend at a gas station in Alabama when two men started shooting each other. A single bullet passed through Krystal’s body and lodged in his girlfriend’s heart. Both girls were killed.
Bob Woodson, president and founder of the Woodson Center, also appeared in the interview, where he called attention to the huge statistical difference between police murders of blacks and crimes against blacks against blacks.
“A handful of people, black, under 20 in the course of a year are disarmed or killed by the police and 6,000 killed by other blocks,” Woodson told Ainsley Earhardt. “And yet, we only hear the names of those taken by the police.”
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Woodson also criticized Colin Kaepernick for a Super Bowl ad with Ben & Jerry’s, which is expected to criticize the police. He said reducing police forces would be a “death sentence” for young blacks in areas with frequent violent crimes.