BLM Protests Line Cops Pockets With Huge Overtime Pay, “$1.8 Million” Miami Alone

All over the country protesters demonstrating against racial injustice, rampant joblessness, and police brutality have inadvertently put more money into the pockets of police.

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NYC, we are SO proud. Yesterday was truly surreal. 25K of you took over Canal Street together and 20K marched across the Brooklyn Bridge into Manhattan!! ✊🏾🖤 Y’all marched through the heat and then the rain, and didn’t let anything stop you. 3,000 of our healthcare heroes marched with you. Surfers in Queens paddled out and cyclists in Brooklyn rode through in solidarity, all with one loud & clear message: #BLACKLIVESMATTER 🙌🏽 AM #justiceforgeorgenyc #NYCStrong #NYCForBlackLives

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While many protesters are calling to “defund” law enforcement, protesters — chiefly associated with the Black Lives Matter movement — may be frustrated to learn that one early result of the protests has been massive overtime pay for police all over the country.

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After last weekend, I didn’t think I could be any more proud. But I never should have underestimated you, New York. 🖤🤍 • Powerful doesn’t even begin to explain it — y’all SHUT IT DOWN this weekend. Watching 15,000 of you taking over Brooklyn in a sea of white for #BlackTransLiveMatter march was truly a moment this city will never forget. Our bikers and skaters led the way for protestors on foot, while our artists painted the town with #BlackLivesMatter. And of course, we cheered you all on as y’all circumvented a police blockade and hopped over the barricade into oncoming traffic to cross the Williamsburg Bridge. NYC, you are UNSTOPPABLE. ✊🏽✊🏾✊🏿 -AM

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Since May 29, the Miami Police Department has reportedly spent more than $1.8 million in police overtime pay, while in Nashville that police overtime figure is $2.3 million.