Natalie Portman is all-in on defunding the police, but it took her some time to get there. In a new post on Instagram, the actress expressed her support for the growing movement of people calling to defund police departments.
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My whole life, police have made me feel safe,” she wrote. “But that’s exactly the center of my white privilege: the police make me as a white woman feel safe, while my black friends, family and neighbours feel the opposite: police make them feel terror.” Portman went on, “Police are the 6th leading cause of death for black men in this country.