Ford employees ask company to stop making police cruisers

Roughly 100 Ford employees have asked the auto company to stop its production and selling of police vehicles amid continuing nationwide protests calling for the end of police brutality and total police reform.

Protests have permeated the country for well over a month that were sparked after the death of George Floyd, and unarmed black man who died in Minneapolis police custody on May 25.

Ford told the Detroit Free Press that the requests for Ford to stop making police vehicles have been "respectful" and "constructive."

"We want to hear and listen to all employees, understand their point of view and be transparent about the actions and positions we are taking," Mark Truby, Ford's chief communications officer, told the paper. "It's a healthy dialogue."

Ford is a major player in police vehicle production, supplying nearly two-thirds of all police vehicles in the country.

In a letter to salaried employees on July 1, CEO Jim Hackett said that while Ford supports the Black Lives Matter movement, it also believes in the importance of law enforcement.

https://thehill.com/policy/transportation/automobiles/506622-ford-employees-ask-company-to-stop-making-police-cruisers

Who do we ask to stop making ghettoes?

If we could stop making criminals, we could end the Police.

Until that happens we just need to weed out the bad ones.

If we could stop making criminals, we could end the Police.

Until that happens we just need to weed out the bad ones.

I think the argument is that if there are no police in Black neighborhoods, these neighborhoods will become "ghettos" (which is an rather poorly defined term).

I don't believe we should get rid of police. I do believe that we need to rethink how the police should work in these communities.

The police should be serving and protecting these communities. In many cases they are obviously failing. I don't think anyone sane doesn't think this is an important discussion. I still agree that preventing Ford from making police cars is silly. The police cars aren't the problem.

Making ghettoes? Start with banks for race redlining whole areas and those like Trump family to rent fairly to everyone an so on.

Ghettoes are not created by the victims anymore then the Jewish Ghettoes was created by the Jews.in the 1920s.

Hell one of the so call southern ghettoes was called the black wall street until a jealous white mob over run it using seize national guard machine guns an aircrafts when the black put up too must of a fight.

I support changes like that. But I don't agree with slashing the police budget to pay for it.

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Making ghettoes? Start with banks for race redlining whole areas and those like Trump family to rent fairly to everyone an so on.

Ghettoes are not created by the victims anymore then the Jewish Ghettoes was created by the Jews.in the 1920s.

Hell one of the so call southern ghettoes was called the black wall street until a jealous white mob over run it using seize national guard machine guns an aircrafts when the black put up too must of a fight.

Obviously you don't know where ghettoes came from. They were once clean white neighborhoods. now they are black on black killing fields.


BUT HEY! Black lives matter!

You racism is showing too greatly I would suggest dialing it back.

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You racism is showing too greatly I would suggest dialing it back.

As a white republican, conservative, I can not be a racist.

I am the party of Lincoln! We freed the slaves!

LOL so you hear the free the slaves from Trump your fuehrer as he stated that few people knew that fact before he told it.

Sorry but to the republicans shame during the civil right movement in the 50s to 60s the racists democrats move to the GOP where they was welcome with very open arms.

Lincoln party have nothing to do with the current GOP.

Actually the people who hate Mr. Trump are quite a lot like the people who hated Mr. Lincoln.

History will judge them the same.

I want the police to be well equipped and well trained so that they can be effective when they protect me.