A Los Angeles city official has come under fire for using the LAPD as her 'personal security' for the last two months at a cost of $100,000 to the city, while she has filed a motion to cut the police department's budget by $150 million. 

LA City Council President Nury Martinez has been slammed after it emerged LAPD cops were stationed outside her home at the same time she was introducing the motion calling for the force to be defunded. 

Martinez joined other council members Herb Wesson, Curren Price and Monica Rodriguez last week in demanding millions of dollars be cut from the LAPD's budget, amid widespread calls for police forces across America to be disbanded and replaced by alternative community measures following the death of George Floyd at the hands of cops in Minneapolis. 

'We need a vision for our city that says "there is going to be justice." American society is founded on a racial hierarchy, one that is born out of slavery, followed by Jim Crow segregation and corporate abuse of labor,' the motion reads. 

'As such, police departments are asked to enforce a system of laws that are designed to reinforce and maintain economic and racial inequality.' 

Jamie McBride, director of the LAPD union Los Angeles Police Protective League Detective, slammed Martinez's actions as 'disgusting' as he estimated the security set the city back a staggering $100,000 - at a time when it is in the midst of a budget crisis due to the coronavirus pandemic.