
Eventually, the messages snowballed into action, and Police-Free CSD - a group made up of current students, alumni, teachers, and area residents - was born in summer 2020. In Cheltenham Township, a racially diverse Montgomery County community of 37,000 people, the conversation began with a flurry of text messages between students in the Cheltenham School District and recent graduates.



As images and videos of police violence at protests forced a nationwide racial reckoning following the killing of George Floyd, many young people sought ways to confront the justice system and change the status quo.
