An increasingly vocal number of business owners and residents in a Chicago neighborhood say they're tiring of calls to defund the police, viewing protesters as outsiders unwilling to do the hands-on work they say is required to improve Black communities
CHICAGO—Three days after his 29-year-old son was shot and killed, Keith Harris joined a group of residents who clashed with protesters during a demonstration outside the Chicago Police Department’s Seventh District station in the Englewood neighborhood.
The turbulent confrontation last week pitted demonstrators seeking to defund the police against crime-weary residents who say they want the department to better serve them. “I don’t see how defunding the police is going to help anything in Englewood,” said Mr. Harris, 53 years...
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