Sybrina Fulton, the mother of Trayvon Martin, the Florida teen slain in 2012 whose death helped spur the Black Lives Matter Movement, says she disagrees with the “defund the police” narrative that has emerged over the last two weeks of police brutality protests.
Fulton qualified last week to run for Miami-Dade county commissioner and she has said if anything, she wants to have better relations between residents and police so defunding them, to her, wouldn’t work best.
“I don’t agree with that,” Fulton told The Guardian.
“I see people of all colors that are there, and that are standing with African Americans,” Fulton said to The Guardian.
A lot of people thought that I should run for a seat that was higher, but I just want to start here and make change.”
