Sylvia Bennett-Stone, who lost her daughter to violence in 2004, spoke out against the movement on Friday to defend the police, saying she often wondered if her daughter would still be alive if police officers were there to help.
“What if the police were there?” Asked Bennett-Stone during an appearance in ‘Fox and Friends’.
“[Defunding the police] ‘We are just going to cause more violence in our neighborhoods, we want to see the police reformed, we want the responsibility of police officers and not take it away,’ she said.
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Bennett-Stone, the director of Voices of Black Mothers United, said that blacks talk about black crime in communities through “the dozens” and that people would rather talk about policing the police.
“How many children still have to die before we have this conversation,” Bennett-Stone said.
Bennett-Stone’s daughter Krystal (19) was pumping gas with her friend at a gas station in Alabama when two men started shooting at each other. A single bullet went through Krystal’s body and sat in the heart of her friend. Both girls are dead.
Bob Woodson, president and founder of the Woodson Center, also appeared in the interview, where he mentioned the large statistical gap between police killings of black individuals versus blacks on black crime.
” A handful of people, blacks, anything under 20 in the course of a year are unarmed or killed by police and 6,000 are killed by other blocs, ” Woodson told Ainsley Earhardt. “And yet we only hear the names of those taken by the police.”
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Woodson has also charged Colin Kaepernick with an upcoming Super Bowl ad featuring Ben & Jerry’s that police are expected to criticize. He said reducing police forces would be a ‘death sentence’ for young black people in areas with frequent violent crimes.