Denzel Washington defends 警官，（賞などを）獲得するs まっただ中に woke calls to defund police 軍隊 - and says 'if it weren't for them' anti-police 抗議する人s wouldn't have 'the freedom to complain'

  • Denzel Washington?defended those in 法律 施行 に引き続いて calls to 'defund police' in the wake of the 黒人／ボイコット Lives 事柄 movement
  • The 学院 Award 勝利者 said he had the '最大の 尊敬（する）・点' for police officers
  • Calls to defund or 廃止する police departments across the country 増大するd last summer after George Floyd and Breonna Taylor were killed by police?
  • His comments were made in an interview 促進するing his 最新の?film, The Little Things, in which he plays a 不名誉d Los Angeles 郡 郡保安官's 探偵，刑事
  • The 66-year-old has now played a 法律-enforcer 13 times during his career?
  • He said that he has seen first-手渡す the work police do given the 研究 he has done for some of his on-審査する 役割s
  • Washington 解任するd a ride-along he did with an LA officer in the 90s during which the 警官，（賞などを）獲得する de-増大するd a 状況／情勢 with an 年輩の man 武装した with a ライフル銃／探して盗む?

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Denzel Washington says he has the '最大の 尊敬（する）・点' for police and that he doesn't agree with those who 非難する them?because?anti-警官，（賞などを）獲得する 抗議する人s wouldn't even have 'the freedom to complain' if it weren't for officers.?

The?学院 Award-winning actor's 弁護 of officers follows calls to defund police over the last year in the wake of the 黒人／ボイコット Lives 事柄 movement across the country.???

'I have the 最大の 尊敬（する）・点 for what they do, for what our 兵士s do, (people) that sacrifice their lives,'?Washington told Yahoo Entertainment?in an interview 促進するing his new film, The Little Things, in which he plays a 不名誉d Los Angeles 郡 郡保安官's 探偵，刑事.??

'I just don't care for people who put those 肉親，親類d of people 負かす／撃墜する. If it weren't for them, we would not have the freedom to complain about what they do.'?

Denzel Washington has?defended those in law enforcement following calls to 'defund police' in the wake of the Black Lives Matter movement across the country

Denzel Washington has?defended those in 法律 施行 に引き続いて calls to 'defund police' in the wake of the 黒人／ボイコット Lives 事柄 movement across the country

The 66-year-old's 最新の film 示すs the 13th time the actor has played a 法律-enforcer on 審査する. He won an 学院 Award for the 2002 film Training Day in which he plays a corrupt LAPD 麻薬s officer.?

Calls to defund or 廃止する police departments across the country 増大するd last summer after George Floyd and Breonna Taylor were killed by police, 誘発するing 抱擁する racial 不正 抗議するs.

Minneapolis, which is where Floyd was killed and became the 震源地 for 抗議するs, ended up 削除するing $8 million from its policing 予算.?

Other cities, 含むing New York, Seattle and Portland, also 削減（する） department 基金ing in the wake of the 抗議するs.?

In his 弁護 of 法律 施行, Washington went on to say that he has seen first-手渡す the work police do given the 研究 he has done for some of his on-審査する 役割s, 含むing the 1991 film Ricochet in which he plays an officer-turned-検察官，検事.?

Washington 述べるd going out with officer James Craig, who is now the 長，指導者 of the Detroit Police Department, 支援する in Los Angeles in the 1990s.??

'I went out on call with a sergeant. We got a call of a man outside his house with a ライフル銃／探して盗む that was distraught,' Washington said of the ride along.?

'We pulled up and did a U-turn past the house and （機の）カム up short of the house. He told me to sit in the car, which I was gonna do. I wasn't getting out. He got out.?As he got out, another car （機の）カム 叫び声をあげるing up and two young people jumped out 叫び声をあげるing. As it turned out, it was their grandfather.?

'This policeman 信管を取り除くd the entire 状況／情勢 by just remaining 静める.?But it showed me in an instant how they can lose their life… He didn't overreact.??

He said that he has seen first-hand the work police do and?described going out with officer James Craig, who is now the chief of the Detroit Police Department, back in Los Angeles in the 1990s

He said that he has seen first-手渡す the work police do and?述べるd going out with officer James Craig, who is now the 長，指導者 of the Detroit Police Department, 支援する in Los Angeles in the 1990s

The Academy Award-winning actor defended those in law enforcement following calls to defund police in the wake of the Black Lives Matter movement across the country. Pictured above are protesters in New York in August

The 学院 Award-winning actor defended those in 法律 施行 に引き続いて calls to defund police in the wake of the 黒人／ボイコット Lives Ma tter movement across the country. Pictured above are 抗議する人s in New York in August

Minneapolis, which is where Floyd was killed and became the epicenter for protests, ended up slashing $8 million from its policing budget. Other cities, including New York, Seattle and Portland, also cut department funding in the wake of the protests

Minneapolis, which is where Floyd was killed and became the 震源地 for 抗議するs, ended up 削除するing $8 million from its policing 予算. Other cities, 含むing New York, Seattle and Portland, also 削減（する） department 基金ing in the wake of the 抗議するs

The 66-year-old has now played a law-enforcer 13 times during his career. He is pictured above in the 1991 film Ricochet

The 66-year-old has now played a 法律-enforcer 13 times during his career. He is pictured above in the 1991 film Ricochet

'He could've pulled his gun out and 発射 the people that （機の）カム up 運動ing real 急速な／放蕩な. He could'v e 発射 the old man that was distraught and a bit 混乱させるd, I think he was 苦しむing a little bit from dementia.?

'But in an instant it taught me, and I never forgot it, what our 法律 施行 people have to を取り引きする moment to moment, second to second.'

In his 最新の film, The Little Things, Washington plays a 不名誉d Los Angeles 郡 郡保安官's 探偵，刑事. In 新規加入 to 法律 enforcers, Washington has also played 軍の servicemen and 退役軍人s.?

Craig has since 賞賛するd Washington for his comments regarding police, telling Fox News that he applauds any A-lister who 'steps up and 認めるs' the sacrifices.?

He 追加するd that he also 尊敬（する）・点d Washington for 平等に 公然と非難するing police 暴力／激しさ after the 殺人，大当りs of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor 誘発するd 普及した 抗議するs across the country.?

'He 会談 about George Floyd but he also 認めるs the 広大な 大多数 of men and women, both 軍の and police, do a phenomenal 職業,' Craig said.?

'He remembered that 出来事/事件 when we worked together on that day and he also remembered me telling him to stay in the car and I'm going to 扱う this and it ended without 出来事/事件.

'That touched me and I certainly 高く評価する／（相場などが）上がる him after that.'?

In his latest film, The Little Things (above), Washington plays a disgraced Los Angeles County Sheriff's detective

In his 最新の film, The Little Things (above), Washington plays a 不名誉d Los Angeles 郡 郡保安官's 探偵，刑事

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