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Minneapolis city council members spend $63,000 of taxpayer money on private security details after receiving death threats from 'white nationalists' for voting to abolish the police department
Daily Mail ^ | Luke Kenton

Posted on 06/28/2020 1:44:25 PM PDT by jonatron

Three members of the Minneapolis City Council have been provided with a private security detail after receiving death threats for supporting proposals to defend the city’s police department in the wake of George Floyd’s killing.

A city spokesperson said the private security details ordered for council members Andrea Jenkins, Phillipe Cunningham and Alondra Cano have cost taxpayers $63,000 over the past three weeks – a rate of $4,300 per day.

News of the arrangement surfaced Friday, the same day the council voted 12-0 to abolish the Minneapolis Police Department, initiating steps toward establishing ‘peace officers’ and a new ‘holistic’ approach to public safety. The police force, which is largely white, has failed to regain the city’s trust after the death of Floyd. The new proposal would eliminate the existing police department and instead create a ‘department of community safety and violence prevention’.

While the measures have been welcomed by those protesting in the city’s streets and calling for the department to be ‘defunded’, many of the council members said they have received death threats from ‘white nationalists’ for publicly backing the proposal.

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KEYWORDS: 1moretime; alondracano; andreajenkins; defund; minneapolis; minnesota; phillipecunningham
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To: neverevergiveup

See post #20.


21 posted on 06/28/2020 2:09:41 PM PDT by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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To: LateBoomer

Zackly. Anyone who pushed back against their decision they’ve labeled a “white nationalist.”


22 posted on 06/28/2020 2:11:39 PM PDT by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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To: jonatron

Actually, I don’t believe it for a minute that the death threats were from “White Supremacists”

How many people make threats and identify themselves as “White Supremacists?”

It is more likely that they received death threats from BLM and Antifa that they’d be killed if they DIDN’T vote for defunding the police.

That’s a much more likely scenario. They were scared to finger BLM/Antifa’s oppressive/threatening tactics, so they concocted the story about “White Supremacists”


23 posted on 06/28/2020 2:16:58 PM PDT by AlanGreenSpam (Obama: The First 'American IDOL' President - sponsored by Chicago NeoCom Thugs)
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To: jonatron

This is a lot like that Rasmussen poll that says people would feel safer with BIDen. 49% Biden 42% Trump not included: 25% GoF Yourself, Pollster (Not included-Really Trump) Roughly safer solitude Trump leads about 60-40


24 posted on 06/28/2020 2:20:33 PM PDT by BigEdLB (BigEdLB, Russian BOT, At your service)
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To: neverevergiveup

The boogieman by any other name


25 posted on 06/28/2020 2:20:40 PM PDT by V_TWIN
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To: Hadean
Those amish are deadly


26 posted on 06/28/2020 2:22:16 PM PDT by MuttTheHoople (What if the Lord sen9t COVID-19 to immunize the world from something more deadly?)
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To: ksm1

“What private security firm in their right mind would take this contract?”

Blackwater?


27 posted on 06/28/2020 2:22:17 PM PDT by dljordan
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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/search?m=all;o=time;q=quick;s=private%20security


28 posted on 06/28/2020 2:26:10 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: jonatron
News of the arrangement surfaced Friday, the same day the council voted 12-0 to abolish the Minneapolis Police Department, initiating steps toward establishing ‘peace officers’ and a new ‘holistic’ approach to public safety. The police force, which is largely white, has failed to regain the city’s trust after the death of Floyd. The new proposal would eliminate the existing police department and instead create a ‘department of community safety and violence prevention’.

Thier elected officials and voters are going to get the biggest Dawrin Award ever offered.

G*d hates idiots, and this is just another gravity test.
29 posted on 06/28/2020 2:29:24 PM PDT by farming pharmer (fork you :(){ :|:& };:)
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To: jonatron

only a five-year-old believes any of this.

anyone can send themselves an email


30 posted on 06/28/2020 2:33:50 PM PDT by RockyTx
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To: jonatron

Another example of criminal, democratically elected government in action.

JoMa


31 posted on 06/28/2020 2:36:01 PM PDT by joma89 (Buy weapons and ammo, folks.)
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To: jonatron

L8r


32 posted on 06/28/2020 2:36:28 PM PDT by preacher ( Journalism no longer reports news, they use news to shape our society.)
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To: jonatron

Related:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3859913/posts posted on 6/27 with 30 replies

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3859730/posts posted on 6/27 with 43 replies


33 posted on 06/28/2020 2:40:14 PM PDT by upchuck (Preserve the American way of life.)
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To: jonatron

Where is the proof that these threats are from “white nationalists”?


34 posted on 06/28/2020 2:51:17 PM PDT by G Larry (The People must shutdown the tyrants.)
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To: jonatron

The new narrative within, I am not a racist I am WHITE NATIONALIST


35 posted on 06/28/2020 2:52:18 PM PDT by ronnie raygun (SOY Mouth)
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To: jonatron

They’re probably all ex-MPD


36 posted on 06/28/2020 3:03:58 PM PDT by UncleDenny77
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To: jonatron

Thanks for posting this.....hadn’t seen it before.


37 posted on 06/28/2020 3:36:47 PM PDT by vis a vis
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To: G Larry

“””Where is the proof that these threats are from “white nationalists”?”””


My point as well. Where are the arrest records? Where are the names? Where is the information on the links to ‘white nationalism’?

The Standard Operating Procedure for Leftists is to claim they have been threatened when they do something stupid and the people push back.


38 posted on 06/28/2020 3:41:42 PM PDT by Presbyterian Reporter
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To: Presbyterian Reporter

Received death threats is the Democrats new meme. shameful


39 posted on 06/28/2020 3:47:47 PM PDT by V V Camp Enari 67-68 (Viet Vet)
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To: Mr_Peter

“City’s” is the correct singular possessive construction.

It is also “damn,” not “dam.”


40 posted on 06/28/2020 3:48:31 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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