https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/ep4xy7/what-does-defund-and-abolish-the-police-mean > Since protests and uprisings began following ex-Minneapolis officer Derek Chavin’s killing of George Floyd, police have responded by rioting nationwide, as video after video shows police inflicting unprovoked violence on the public. > Cops reacting violently to a movement sparked by police brutality isn't merely ironic—such a reaction is expected given American history or the present political landscape. And despite a long history of gratuitous violence, racism, and little accountability, funding for police departments has grown even as waves of austerity reforms have gutted the budgets of nearly every other public institution.