Posted on 12/20/2020 6:07:06 AM PST by rustyweiss74
A pair of Minneapolis City Council members are claiming “defund the police” was never part of their planned “framework,” just days after a vote to slash nearly $8 million from the department’s budget while homicide rates have soared in the city.
In an interview with KSTP Eyewitness News, Steve Fletcher and Phillipe Cunningham both concurred that the plan was never about defunding the police and implied the department was simply a casualty of unavoidable budgeting issues.
“‘Defund’ is not the framework the council has ever chosen,” Fletcher claimed.
Cunningham, according to the network, “audibly agreed.”
Fletcher continued, “If we’re going to look at how we fund different programs, it would be very hard to do that without taking that money from the Minneapolis Police Department.”
Last week, the Minneapolis City Council voted to “redirect” $7.77 million from the police department and toward other programs.
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It is rather difficult to take Fletcher and Cunningham seriously when they suggest the plan was never about defunding the police, especially when the Council is notably on record as supporting such efforts.
Over the summer, the council took numerous steps to dismantle the department, including an amendment to remove $1 million from their budget and reallocate it toward hiring “violence interrupters.”
They announced their intentions in June, according to the Guardian, when “a veto-proof majority of council members declared their intent to ‘dismantle’ and ‘abolish’ the embattled police agency.”
As for Fletcher and Cunningham, the Daily Mail reports that they “appeared with seven colleagues on a stage bearing a huge sign reading ‘Defund Police’ during a protest in Powderhorn Park.”
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Protesters want no police so they can kill whomever pissed them off with no consequences. There are a LOT of angry people out there who see no other solution to their conflicts are not willing to correct their own attitudes to avoid conflict.
Blood on their hands. Now they’re trying to dissemble their way out of it.
Cognitive dissonance is in their genes. Let them go insane if they cannot deal with it.
The answer is STOP All Security Details for Elected Officials immediately and permanently, and the Police Union could make this happen Overnight
They should do it. The only reason these riots can even happen is because the police are protecting criminals from lawful self defense by normal people.
Their rambling nonsense looks even more stupid after the vote. Tough Sh!+, live with it Minneapolis, you elected these cretins.
This.
Putting things like this in positions of power is just insane and wrong.
If a person cannot publicly accept the truth of oneself, and expects others to shut off their faculties of reason and logic in order to go along with him or her or it in the charade, why should we not view every act they commit with utter suspicion and discernment?
Pity that those homicides were not directed at the City Council members. Better they (inept, corrupt, and stupid) then the population-at-large.
You get what you vote for. learn to control BLM and Antifa anarchists, with a club or a gun, until then tough.
Up is down.
Left is Right
It’s insane liberals in all their might.
It can happen when you live in a bubble, propped up by other people's money.
It usually does not last for long, as a group with more cohesion moves in and takes over by conquest.
“The only reason these riots can even happen is because the police are protecting criminals from lawful self defense by normal people.”
Yep. It’s a perfect example of the government working against the will of the people.
LIARS. Deadly liars. Blood on their hands. Karma’s a biotch.
Isaiah 5:
20 Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!
21 Woe unto them that are wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight!
22 Woe unto them that are mighty to drink wine, and men of strength to mingle strong drink:
23 Which justify the wicked for reward, and take away the righteousness of the righteous from him!
24 Therefore as the fire devoureth the stubble, and the flame consumeth the chaff, so their root shall be as rottenness, and their blossom shall go up as dust: because they have cast away the law of the Lord of hosts, and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.
“ LIARS. Deadly liars. Blood on their hands. Karma’s a biotch.”
God has not failed to notice that these people are acting against His will. He will not be mocked.
“...even more far left crazies will continue to shoot each other, which is not a bad thing.”
Exactly. The first thing I thought when I saw “As Homicides Soar..” was who’s being killed? Mostly the people who literally asked for it. So be it.
Very well put.
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