The Black Lives Matter movement launched a new website Friday, announcing its official campaign platform that calls for several reforms to end police violence.
On a website titled Campaign Zero, the social justice group revealed its plan to curb police violence and reform the United States’ criminal justice system, which is being led by their “planning team” of DeRay McKesson, Samuel Sinyangwe, Brittany Packnett and Johnetta Elzie.
“We can live in an America where the police do not kill people,” the group’s website says. “Police in England, Germany, Australia, Japan and even cities like Newark, N.J., and Richmond, Calif., demonstrate that public safety can be ensured without killing civilians.”
The website calls for legislative reforms at both the state and federal levels. Among other things, the group is calling for an end to broken windows policing, limiting the use of police force, requiring body cameras on police and taking military equipment out of the hands of police.
“By implementing the right policy changes, we can end police killings and other forms of police violence in the United States,” it said. “We must end police violence so we can live and feel safe in this country.”
The social justice group has certainly become the loudest and possibly most powerful one of the 2016 election, interrupting numerous presidential hopeful candidates’ rallies.
The Black Lives Matter movement originated in 2013 following the shooting death of unarmed black teenager Trayvon Martin in Florida.
