During an interview, actor Morgan Freeman said he does not support the movement across the country to defund the police.
Freeman was interviewed by Black Enterprise’s Selena Hill and said “I’m not in the least bit for defunding the police”.
Police work is, aside from all the negativity around it, it is very necessary for us to have them and most of them are guys that are doing their job. They’re going about their day-to-day jobs. There are some police the never pulled their guns except in rage, that sort of thing. I don’t know.
His new movie, “The Killing Of Kenneth Chamberlain”, involves an elderly black veteran who is killed by police. Freeman’s co-star, Frankie Faison, plays the man shot by the police.
Faison said “Well, I agree with Morgan”. “I’m certainly not in favor of defunding policemen”, he added.
He noted that celebrities in Hollywood are “treated a little differently by law enforcement than people who are just of ordinary walks of life”. “I would like for that to stop, I would like for us all to be treated equally”.
Back in June, Freeman said “It’s time we are equipping police officers with training and ensuring ‘law enforcement’ is not defined only as a gun and a stick. Policing should be about that phrase ‘To Serve’ found on most law enforcement vehicles”.