Ford pressured to stop selling police cars, but it won't get out of the business

Ford CEO Jim Hackett rejected employees’ calls to get out of the police car business, saying the automaker can support the Black Lives Matter movement while selling the majority of America’s police cars.
Hackett, in a recent memo to staff, acknowledged that some Ford (F) employees are urging the company to stop making police cars because of a series of high-profile killings of Black Americans by police. A public petition on Change.org has also gathered about 12,000 signatures over the last month, urging Ford to refuse sales and service of cars to police departments “using violent tactics.”
The police car that George Floyd was lying next to when he was killed was a Ford. The Ford Interceptor is widely acknowledged as the nation’s best-selling police vehicle vehicle, although Ford has not broken out the number of vehicles it has sold.
There are no firm figures on its market share, but industry experts believe it to be in the 60% range.