The City Council is seeking “to end policing as we know it and recreate systems that actually keep us safe.”
MINNEAPOLIS — A majority of the members of the Minneapolis City Council said Sunday they support disbanding the city’s police department, an aggressive stance that comes just as the state has launched a civil rights investigation after George Floyd’s death.
Nine of the council’s 12 members appeared with activists at a rally in a city park Sunday afternoon and vowed to end policing as the city currently knows it. Council member Jeremiah Ellison promised that the council would “dismantle” the department.
“It is clear that our system of policing is not keeping our communities safe,” Lisa Bender, the council president, said. “Our efforts at incremental reform have failed, period.”
Bender went on to say she and the eight other council members that joined the rally are committed to ending the city’s relationship with the police force and “to end policing as we know it and recreate systems that actually keep us safe.”
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A majority of the members of the Minneapolis City Council said they support disbanding the city’s police departmenthttps://t.co/RujQZpvpe5
— POLITICO (@politico) June 8, 2020
What could go wrong? https://t.co/hZYjULoIWI
— Jonah Goldberg (@JonahDispatch) June 7, 2020
Two things that are true at the same time:
1) I am deeply, deeply angered by and critical and suspicious of American police.
2) You could not pay me to live in a town or city or municipality that actually succeeded in abolishing its police force.
— Thomas Chatterton Williams 🌍 🎧 (@thomaschattwill) June 7, 2020
Minneapolis City Council President Lisa Bender: "A lot of us were asked if we could imagine a future without police back in 2017… And I answered yes." pic.twitter.com/FDYy3F6Ia0
— The Hill (@thehill) June 8, 2020
Everyone: "Police unions protect bad cops from accountability!"
Teachers unions: pic.twitter.com/fBl24EPIh2
— Corey A. DeAngelis (@DeAngelisCorey) June 7, 2020
https://t.co/oE7KDidKfj pic.twitter.com/CJ9hT5xpuf
— Jonah Goldberg (@JonahDispatch) June 8, 2020
“to end policing as we know it and recreate systems that actually keep us safe.”
Just what will those “systems” be, Miz Bender?
Hate to tell Camerota, but if her house is broken into once the police force is disbanded, she will be expected to allow the intruder(s) to take whatever they want. This is the only way she can divest herself of her “white privilege.” Sigh!
And people wonder why sales of firearms are on the rise.
Top Democrats are carefully — but forcefully — speaking out against growing calls from activists to defund police departments https://t.co/lTDBC5H9yY
— POLITICO (@politico) June 8, 2020
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