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Minneapolis City Council president aims to replace police department with ‘transformative new model of public safety’
Washington Examiner ^ | 6/04/20 | Anthony Leonardi

Posted on 06/05/2020 2:49:18 AM PDT by Libloather

The Minneapolis City Council president will vote to abolish the city's police department for a "transformative new model of public safety."

On Thursday, Lisa Bender, the Minneapolis City Council president, committed to abolishing law enforcement in the city, which is home to approximately 430,000 residents, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.

"Yes. We are going to dismantle the Minneapolis Police Department and replace it with a transformative new model of public safety," Bender said in response to Jeremiah Ellison, the son of Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison and another member of the city council.

**SNIP**

In an interview with local media, Bender said she believes it is possible for the council to vote to abolish the police department, though it would require "white people" to "show up in a different way."

“To do this kind of big work, we need a deeper, broader conversation than we’ve ever had before,” she said. “We need white people, like me and my neighbors, to show up in a different way.”

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Conspiracy; Local News; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: bender; ellison; minneapolis; mplscitycouncil; mplspolice; police; riots; whatcouldgowrong
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To: buckalfa

“Read the history of October 1917 and the establishment of “councils”.”

Please elaborate.


21 posted on 06/05/2020 3:22:11 AM PDT by tired&retired (Blessings)
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To: Libloather

If I was a resident of Minneapolis, I would be seriously considering an exit strategy, especially if I didn’t belong to a protected class.


22 posted on 06/05/2020 3:24:17 AM PDT by windsorknot
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To: Libloather

“Conversation” = “We demand and you shut the heck up”


23 posted on 06/05/2020 3:25:33 AM PDT by Tallguy (Facts be d@mned! The narrative must be protected at all costs!))
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To: snarkytart

Whatever it means, it won’t be good. These people think that upholding the law is racist.


24 posted on 06/05/2020 3:26:07 AM PDT by virgil (The evil that men do lives after them)
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To: Libloather
Dismantle Minneapolis. Starve the beast. No community redevlopment grants or in-kind dollars. Redline every single Federal dollar, withdraw all the military-industrial Fed support. Every single penny gone, and in its place, insert this line into the budget: Compliments of a friend
25 posted on 06/05/2020 3:34:37 AM PDT by StAnDeliver (I don't owe you my freedom.)
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To: Libloather

The day either one of those can mint a coin with his face on it, then ill pay attention.

Otherwise from where i sit, this wasnt even a very good
Boogaloo ... lot of glass broken and some ferals snatching expensive dresses — what does that even say ?
Lofl


26 posted on 06/05/2020 3:37:02 AM PDT by StAnDeliver (I don't owe you my freedom.)
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To: buckalfa

Glad you’re up on 1917. The parallels are terrifying.


27 posted on 06/05/2020 3:37:38 AM PDT by livius
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To: tired&retired; buckalfa

Websters:

soviet, noun, “any governmental council”

Councils were the mechanism for the start of the Soviet Union.


28 posted on 06/05/2020 3:37:57 AM PDT by C210N
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To: Delta 21

Yep. A liberal friend of mine lives in MN and is freaking out. NOW she wants a gun and suddenly, I am the one she is calling for advice. She is having anxiety and heart palpitations, unable to sleep as she is worried about rioting getting to he neighborhood and there is NOTHING she can do.


29 posted on 06/05/2020 3:42:02 AM PDT by Cowgirl of Justice
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To: tired&retired

Hint: Russia


30 posted on 06/05/2020 3:42:13 AM PDT by Dr. Ursus
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To: riverrunner

I was thinking along the lines of what David Kopel discusses in his book “The Samurai, The Mountie, and The Cowboy” and there is a chapter titled “Civilization and Savagery: America’s Half Remembered Past”. In that chapter, he outlines how Americans kept the peace by being armed and confronting dangerous and disruptive persons before there were sheriffs or police departments. He says “the real historical meaning of vigilantism had nothing to do with individual self-defense against crime. Vigilantism meant organized, community effort to rid a locality of lawbreakers”.

And that I can perhaps add to my initial observation as well. Is this woman wishing to have groups or communities of the law abiding take up arms and do that work in the police’s stead?


31 posted on 06/05/2020 3:43:31 AM PDT by OttawaFreeper ("The Gardens was founded by men-sportsmen-who fought for their country" Conn Smythe, 1966)
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To: Libloather
A rose by any other name is still a rose.

If the new "transformative new model of public safety does not have the power to remove unsafe players, then the result will be vigilantism, or even worse the unsafe players will form gangs and seize control. Hope you enjoy that Minnesota.

32 posted on 06/05/2020 3:44:05 AM PDT by Robert DeLong
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To: MustKnowHistory

Lol

This will make for fun reading after it happens. They will be like escape from New York.


33 posted on 06/05/2020 3:47:07 AM PDT by dp0622 (The very future of the Republic is at stake. We now know dems will do ANYTHING to win.)
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To: Libloather

Introducing the new and improved ROBOCOP!


34 posted on 06/05/2020 3:49:57 AM PDT by Colo9250 (Wake up! Democrats, Progressives, and Liberals are all part of the American Communist Party!)
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To: Libloather

If I lived there, I would be moving out of the city a.s.a.p.


35 posted on 06/05/2020 3:51:49 AM PDT by proud American in Canada (In these trying times, Give me Liberty or Give me Death As in,)
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To: Cowgirl of Justice

We must have the same friend with the heart palpitations. Suddenly Minnesota nice has just been taken advantage of and shes scared to death. Hey, nice dont cut it when you are facing a mob carrying bricks and burning bottles of gasoline.


36 posted on 06/05/2020 4:01:42 AM PDT by Ikeon (Simple minds think alike. , they dont hold a lot of options,)
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To: Libloather

IF this passes today, I hope each police officer calls in sick. Better yet every police officer in this country should call in sick.


37 posted on 06/05/2020 4:11:34 AM PDT by LoveMyFreedom
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To: Cowgirl of Justice
NOW she wants a gun and suddenly, I am the one she is calling for advice.

One amusing thing is the liberals who have always wanted more gun laws and now complain that it's faster and easier to get a handgun illegally than legally. Our seven day waiting periods are a big deal when the riots, looting, and arson are coming on all seven days.

38 posted on 06/05/2020 4:16:36 AM PDT by Pollster1 ("Governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed")
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To: tired&retired
"Read the history of October 1917 and the establishment of “councils”.”"

Please elaborate.

The councils, or soviets, were organizations instituted by the Bolsheviks during the 1917 revolution to institute communist rule, replacing existing government and policing functions. History does not necessarily repeat itself but often rhymes

39 posted on 06/05/2020 4:19:38 AM PDT by buckalfa (Remember what the dormouse said. Feed your head. Feed your head.)
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To: Libloather

She’s a effing idiot. Seriously, how does she feed and clothe herself without assistance? Pandering and playing right into the hands of the forces trying to destroy our country. She is pathetic.


40 posted on 06/05/2020 4:23:51 AM PDT by ThunderSleeps
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