Posted on 08/09/2021 1:39:32 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Activists in Minneapolis are making a second attempt to get rid of the city's police department, more than a year after George Floyd's death at the hands of officers. [snip]
More than a year after George Floyd’s death sparked a failed push to abolish the Minneapolis Police Department, activists and several City Council members are trying again, with a well-funded initiative that would ask voters in November whether the department — disparaged by critics for what they say is an enduring culture of brutality — should be dismantled.
In its place would be a public safety department that employs a “comprehensive public health approach” and licensed peace officers “if necessary.” The new department would no longer be under the sole command of the mayor’s office, which is significant given that incumbent Mayor Jacob Frey opposes abolishing the police department while a majority of City Council members supports the idea.
More than 30 local groups are pushing for change under the “Yes 4 Minneapolis” banner. They gathered 20,000 signatures to get the measure on the ballot — almost twice the number necessary — and have raised about $1 million, including $500,000 from Open Society Policy Center, which has ties to billionaire George Soros.
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I have officially joined the Defund the Police movement. Everyone is on their own!
We’re not Chicago, but number 55 was shot and killed today.
Do it! I want to hear the people in Minneapolis scream for help and get none.
Communism is birthed in the waters of chaos. Every time.
Ditto.
Do it. Liberals deserve what they get.
Good, let them do it. Their little paradise will turn into a living hell.
I am ready to join the push to abolish the police.
All they are doing is protecting the Antifags and Burning Looting Mobs.
See the recent event in Portland.
Has Ted Baxter issued a news report yet on this issue??
It has gone from the sublime to the ridicules. ANYONE who still lives or works in that city deserves what they get. Dont wait to be the LMO to turn off the lights.
Marxist thrive on pitting one group against another. Class vs class, race vs race, employer vs employee, men vs women, law enforcement vs law breaker, normal people vs people with new and strange sexual identities, vaccinated vs unvaccinated. And the Republicans just fall into the trap.
With the zeal that everyone demonstrated to obtain Chauvin’s conviction, I can’t imagine anyone on the force not having already left.
Give them what they want, MPD?
Spot on!
Drug dealer George Floyd swallowed the fentanyl that killed him. He was going to sell the drug to others and did not care if they died. How many had he killed before with his drugs?
Disband the police because a thug drug addict killed himself-
New Somalia where warlords will reign Supreme. And those warlords? Somalian. Glad I have no business thee
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