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Posted on 06/04/2020 6:32:26 PM PDT by Ennis85
Members of Minneapolis City Council are adding fuel to growing calls for the disbanding of the Minneapolis Police Department in the wake of George Floyd's killing.
There have been rumblings in recent days of looking for alternative approaches to law enforcement and crime prevention in Minneapolis, as trust in the police department continues to plummet after the 46-year-old's death.
Chief among those calling for change is Northside council member Jeremiah Ellison, who on Thursday tweeted "we are going to dismantle the Minneapolis Police Department."
"And when we’re done, we’re not simply gonna glue it back together," he added. "We are going to dramatically rethink how we approach public safety and emergency response. It’s really past due."
Ellison, the 5th Ward council member who is the son of Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison and Minneapolis Public Schools Board Chair Kim Ellison, is not alone in expressing a desire to bring an end to MPD in its current form.
Council president Lisa Bender backed Ellison's call, tweeting: "Yes. We are going to dismantle the Minneapolis Police Department and replace it with a transformative new model of public safety."
Earlier on Thursday, she noted how she has "long supported moving money from MPD to community strategies."
Furthermore, she says as the council moves towards transforming law enforcement in the city, she called on the city's white community to stand up.
"If you are a comfortable white person asking to dismantle the police I invite you to reflect: are you willing to stick with it? Will you be calling in three months to ask about garage break-ins? Are you willing to dismantle white supremacy in all systems, including a new system?
"I mean this quite sincerely & seriously: just look at recent conversations about City-funded neighborhood organizations to understand how explicitly we would have to work to establish alternative systems that do not replicate the same problems. White ppl need to show up for this."
The council has proved to be a check on Mayor Jacob Frey's efforts to increase policing in recent years, and the killing of Floyd has seen them become more and more vocal about calls for change.
Ward 3 member Steve Fletcher earlier this week accused MPD of reducing response times to his ward because he had voted for budget cuts for the department.
He said the continued presence of Minneapolis Police Federation President Bob Kroll shows that MPD is "irredeemably beyond reform."
Does this include the City Councilors I would hope they would be included in the festivities.
On the bright side, there's Trump. He won't allow it. But we're in for some dicey days ahead, that's for sure. The sooner Trump steps in the better.
Good luck with that huge crime wave that will be coming! Time for Republicans to leave and let the Dems trash their own nest.
They also maintain that they are not leftist fascists......
We live in appalling times, in case you haven’t noticed.
Probably not leftists.
Minnesota State AG Keith Ellison is Muslim, and has pledged support for Antifa.
His son and Minneapolis council member Jeremiah Ellison probably would welcome Sharia Law.
Probably exactly what they have in mind.
Best fix, wall it off from the rest of America. Then let the heat Hans have at it. Pretty soon all things to kill will be gone or starving. Best solution
I agree. Hell load up and get out. Plenty other towns needing police work done
Minneapolis City Council consists of 13 members - 12 Democrats (DFL) and 1 Greenie moonbat. Marxists, all.
Minneapolis is over 63% white, and I imagine not even most non-whites (especially the non-black minorities) are going to want to go along with this. The voters need to stop these idiots.
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Here in Minneapolis the split is more by age than by race from what I can see. It’s the young people who have been indoctrinated by our public schools and universities that are the most in favor of abolishing the police.
Older blacks tend to want more police protecting them, not less.
Well, a comment on this manure was not seen in the first twenty comments and I can’t wait for the next two hundred that are already posted so I’ll ask the question based on the quoted text Council President Lisa Bender writes:
Furthermore, she says as the council moves towards transforming law enforcement in the city, she called on the city’s white community to stand up.
“If you are a comfortable white person asking to dismantle the police I invite you to reflect: are you willing to stick with it? Will you be calling in three months to ask about garage break-ins? Are you willing to dismantle white supremacy in all systems, including a new system?
“I mean this quite sincerely & seriously: just look at recent conversations about City-funded neighborhood organizations to understand how explicitly we would have to work to establish alternative systems that do not replicate the same problems. White ppl need to show up for this.”
Excuuuuuuse me for livin Lisa, but you seem to have a speech problem that I am very uncomfortable with. Just who the hell is this white community you are talking about. People in America are called AMERICANS and are judged by the content of their character and not the color of their skin. Only anti-american racists refer to people by their skin color. So which are you, as if you haven’t already made that announcement perfectly clear.
They really can’t conceive what will happen when Joe Citizen realizes he is the only thing left standing between the bad guys and civil society...
Democrats: We will confiscate your firearms. The police will protect you
Democrats: We will stand down and defund the police
Democrats: We will release the violent arsonists and looters immediately
Hey Minnesota folks, Florida is open for business and here we do not have crap leaders.
Minneapolis will become a No-Go Zone.
Ah lay lew yah. It only took a hundred and forty four comments for the white angle to be introduced.
LOL looks like Minneapolis will have the highest crime rate in the nation soon. Idiots.
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