Google employees demand company cuts contracts with police in leaked letter

More than 1600 Google employees are demanding that the company stop selling technology to police departments. "We're disappointed to know that Google is still selling to police forces, and advertises its connection with police forces as somehow progressive, and seeks more expansive sales rather than severing ties with police and joining the millions who want to defang and defund these institutions," the letter reads, according to Techcrunch. "Why help the institutions responsible for the knee on George Floyd's neck to be more effective organizationally? Not only that, but the same Clarkstown police force being advertised by Google as a success story has been sued multiple times for illegal surveillance of Black Lives Matter organizers." The letter, signed by 1666 employees, was addressed to Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai.