Posted on 06/07/2020 4:26:59 PM PDT by RomanSoldier19
Council President Lisa Bender told CNN that with the nine votes the city council members would have a veto-proof majority of the council's 13 members.
Sunday's pledge was an acknowledgment that the current system is not working, Bender said.
"(We need) to listen, especially to our black leaders, to our communities of color, for whom policing is not working and to really let the solutions lie in our community," she said.
Pressed for details on what the dismantling might look like, Bender told CNN she was looking to shift police funding toward community-based strategies and that the city council would discuss how to replace the current police department.
"The idea of having no police department is certainly not in the short term," she added.
Bender and other council members analyzed the nature of 911 calls by constituents, she said, and found most were for mental health services, health and EMT and fire services.
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Let’s see how that works for them.
So, who’s going to protect the city council members?
Their masters who will be the ones in control.
There’s a duty....health, safety and welfare. Police are part of that duty. These Council members better think twice.
Great idea! And take everybody’s guns too! Utopia!! /s
This should be quite the social experiment. Minneapolis is already looking for Federal funds.
Lawsuits by the thousands..Better not promise too much....
Declare the city a federal prison colony and build a wall around it.
Based on what I saw in an interview of one of the proposing city council members they have absolutely no idea what will replace what they now have.
The entire police force should quit tonight. Every Single last one of them. I would allow Minneapolis to descend all the way to utter lawlessness.
I just don’t care. Let the predators have their way.
What happens when no one pays their taxes?
Would Mary Richards move out of Minneapolis?
Sorry, no Mogadishus in America.
Minneapolis blacks run for their lives as MS-13 members declare themselves lords and masters of all they see. One black accidentally ventures into white neighborhood and is lynched by community patrollers.
“And everyone can have all the free ice cream they want!”
I read an article which said that if they did away with police in major cities, then the law enforcement presence would be the county sheriff or state troopers.
I’d love to see the entire Minneapolis PD resign en masse.
Trump has got Minnesota.
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