Posted on 10/04/2021 4:44:38 PM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo
As activists mobilized this summer to ask Minneapolis voters to replace their police department, one of the first prominent Democrats to slam the plan was a moderate congresswoman who doesn’t even live in the city.
Angie Craig declared it “shortsighted, misguided and likely to harm the very communities that it seeks to protect." She warned that it could push out the city's popular Black police chief.
Craig's district covers a suburban-to-rural and politically divided region south of the city, but her willingness to jump into the fight next door highlights the political threat that Democrats like Craig see in the proposal.
As a city that has become synonymous with police abuse wrestles with police reform, the effort is sharply dividing Democrats along ideological lines. The state's best known progressives — U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar and Attorney General Keith Ellison — support the plan, which would replace the police department with a new Department of Public Safety. Other top Democrats, including Sen. Amy Klobuchar and Gov. Tim Walz, oppose it.
The debate is dominating the city's mayoral and City Council races, the first since a Minneapolis police officer killed George Floyd in May 2020 and sparked a global racial reckoning. Passing the amendment would be a major win for the reform movement — both in substance and symbolism. But many in the Democratic establishment believe calls to “dismantle” or “defund” police cost the party seats in statehouses and Congress last year. They're determined not to let that happen again next year. Defeating the Minneapolis measure has become a critical, high-profile test.
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Craig, Klobuchar and Walz know what will happen to the crime rate in Minneapolis if this passes.
Ellison and Omar don't care.
Idiots. Hey Mike the My Pillow Man, move your company down here to Alabama. We’ll welcome you and even come up and help you pack up and move. Your workers are welcome also. Best pillow we have ever put our heads on.
Oh, and did you know that one of Keith Ellison’s kids is on the city council and is the main driving force behind the defund the police movement?
On the bright side, the next “Mad Max” sequel can be filmed in Minneapolis for next to nothing ...
I guess the population of Minneapolis doesn’t see any peril in replacing the Minneapolis PD, or their opinions don’t matter.
Remember, these people elected Ellison and Omar to congress.
Twice.
They used to call it Murderapolis when we lived in that state.
That moniker has been revived this summer.
The question is who will the new entity hire, the ones they just fired?
But . . . but . . . but . . . how could that be?
I'll take door # 2 for 1000, Alex.
The opinions of the "voters" do not matter in any way.
There is a squabble within the Party as to how the swag should be divvied up. The losing factions are now pretending that they would rather keep the money for the police than let their opponents have it.
What they need is to Protect the Public Employee’s from Gun Violence by making it a Felony to be in possession of Any Weapon, Firearm or Ammunition if employed or employed on behalf of ANY Public Employee for the purpose of protection or security
Democrats only see political peril. Not the actual peril they are inflicting on people.
Bingo!
Unexpected.
I’m surprised that this statue celebrating a white woman hasn’t been taken down yet.
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