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Microsoft, Amazon and IBM express ‘solidarity.’ Should they end police contracts?
Activists say powerful tech companies have a responsibility to break business ties with law enforcement or use those relationships as leverage to demand needed reforms.

A protest leader calls for people to back up during a June 1 demonstration in Washington, D.C. The technology industry is facing pressure to respond to the police-brutality crisis because of its growing wealth and influence, its lack of diversity and its financial ties with law enforcement agencies.
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