'Not merely an issue of words, but of actions': Googlers demand company ends police contracts

More than 1,650 Google employees are demanding that the company end its work with police forces. “We should not be in the business of profiting from racist policing,” the employees wrote in a letter addressed to Google Inc. CEO Sundar Pichai, per TechCrunch. “We should not be in the business of criminalizing Black existence while we chant that Black Lives Matter. We, the undersigned Googlers, call on you to stop making our technology available to police forces.” The letter, headlined “No…