A protest group holds a demonstration in front of Cuckerberg's home that ``Facebook should stop funding local police''
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BLM Protesters Demand Facebook Stop Funding Local Police
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On Sunday afternoon, June 7, 2020, a protest group of hundreds of people living in the San Francisco Bay Area , where Silicon Valley is located, marched through the city of Menlo Park , where Facebook is headquartered. Protesters headed from Menlo Park to Zuckerberg's CEO's home in Palo Alto and protested in front of his house.
A protest group backed by the artist group Tha Hood Squad demanded that Facebook stop funding local law enforcement agencies. 'We stopped in front of his house for 15 minutes and read our claims aloud,' said JT Faraji, a member of The Hood Squad.
In September 2017, Facebook announced that it will make a $11.2 million (about 1.2 billion yen) donation to the general financial resources of its headquarters in Menlo Park. Menlo Park has not clarified how to use this money, but some of this money seems to be put into a special police unit called ``Facebook unit'' that guards around the Facebook headquarters in Menlo Park is. Facebook funding for police is explained as 'to allow police to maintain the same security as before, even as the development of Menlo Park grows with Facebook.'
However, there were many oppositions to Facebook's funding for police from the people of the color race around Menlo Park. A protest group centered on residents of the city of
With the rapid growth of the IT industry, many technology companies have gathered in Menlo Park and Palo Alto, making it one of the richest people in the United States and the city where many elite businessmen live. On the other hand, East Palo Alto, which exists in the form of being surrounded by Menlo Park and Palo Alto, was once known as the worst class insecurity city in the United States, and many poor blacks and Latin people still live in it. .. Poverty in East Palo Alto has been steadily worsening since 2000, which is a serious concern for cities.
Accelerating the poverty of East Palo Alto is the rise in rents due to the wealthy neighboring cities. Some people who originally lived in East Palo Alto are forced to move without being able to pay the increased rent, or become homeless, but the technology company that caused it It's not going to hire the poor in East Palo Alto. Meanwhile, protest groups such as The Hood Squad are increasingly concerned about Facebook's efforts to fund local police and deepen their ties, and this time the protest was conducted.
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A Facebook spokeswoman said, ``Over the past few years, we have donated to the city's general financial resources to ensure the safety of bicycles and pedestrians,'' said a Facebook spokeswoman who has funded police to organize special units. And the quality of emergency response.The additional security costs of our growth at Menlo Park were borne by us, not by local taxpayers. It is allocated at its discretion,' he argued that Facebook was not directly involved in the establishment of the 'Facebook Unit.'
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