Kansas City-area organizations continue call to defund police, for KCPD chief to resign
Organizations, Mayor Lucas trade letters, barbs
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and last updated 2021-04-22 21:19:52-04
KANSAS CITY, Mo. â Seven social justice organizations from the Kansas City area are doubling down on demands for the Kansas City, Missouri, Police Department s budget to be slashed and for Chief of POlice Rick Smith to resign.
Organizations including Black Rainbow, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, the Southern Christian Leadership Conference of Greater Kansas City, National Black United Front - Kansas City, Operation Liberation, the Urban League of Greater Kansas City and Urban Summit of Kansas City released a copy of a letter they submitted to Mayor Quinton Lucas and Jackson County Prosecuting Attorney Jean Peters Baker.