“I’m not at all financing the police at all”

Actor Morgan Freeman said in a recent interview that he was not in favor of funding police services across the country.

“I’m not for police funding at all,” Freeman told Black Enterprise’s Selena Hill. “Police work is, aside from all the negativity that surrounds it, it’s very necessary for us to have them and most of them are guys doing their jobs. They do their daily work. A few years ago the police never pulled out their guns except in rage, that sort of thing. I do not know.

Freeman sat down for the interview to promote his new film, “The Killing Of Kenneth Chamberlain,” which focuses on an elderly black veteran who died at the hands of law enforcement.

His co-star in the film, Frankie Faison, who plays the victim of the police shooting, also said he didn’t think the police should be funded.

“Well, I agree with Morgan,” Faison said in the interview. “I am certainly not in favor of funding police officers.”

Faison also pointed out that Hollywood celebrities are “treated a little differently by law enforcement than people who are just ordinary backgrounds” but that he “would like that to stop”, adding that he wished that everyone is treated equally.

Over the summer, Freeman and a criminal justice professor donated $ 1 million to the University of Mississippi to develop a center for evidence-based policing and reform.

“Look at the past year in our country – that sums it all up,” Freeman said in June. “It is time for us to train the police and ensure that ‘law enforcement’ is not defined as just a gun and a stick.