Philadelphia Community College Protester: Police Getting Killed Is 'Part of Their Job'
PHILADELPHIA(CBS) -- A Philadelphia Police Department recruiter was confronted by Black Lives Matter protesters at Community College of Philadelphia to voice their discontent at police practices around the city and the country.
Andrea Haulcoch, representing the Revolutionary Student Coordinating Committee, talked with Dom Giordano on Talk Radio 1210 WPHT and said their protest of the police department is an example of democracy in action.
"We're basically implementing a more direct form of democracy in that moment, in feeling what we were doing was liberating the community college from the police presence."
When asked about the number of police officers killed so far this year, she expressed little concern.
"I don't particularly care. That's part of their job, like when the troops go overseas and get shot in another country."
Haulcoch compared the police recruiter to an occupying army and said the goal of an integrated police force that better represents the city of Philadelphia is inconsequential.
"It depends on how you view the police. If you have a positive view of the institution of police and you want greater integration into that force, more black and brown faces into that police force to make it function how you believe it should, then obviously, that is a good thing. But we have a very, extremely negative view of the police force. So, if you want to compare it to anything, perhaps we could compare it to the United States, which is what we consider the supreme world imperialist power."
