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."
I have a solution for that, but articulating it here would certainly get me thrown off the forum, and possibly tossed into the gulag. lol
Also no revenue from traffic tickets.
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Oh they plan on using EZ-pass, (not figuring that without cops the denizens will pull the readers down.)
The whore [a view I find abhorrent let me just state for the record so there is no mistaking my position], will be executed for dishonoring her family and society by being raped. That’s the way they do it in “honor societies”.
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Of course her family is expected to murder her for “dishonoring the family”. Problem solved, no need for white police.
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My conspiracy theory is that they were both in on a scam at the club probably involving counterfeit money and the laundering of it.
Floyd was about to break that scam wide open after being arrested by actually trying to pass one of the bills off as legit.
cop probably realized that by being totally jacked up on drugs and addicted the guy would have easily spilled the beans under heavy police interrogation..
The cop decided to nip that in the bud using a supposedly legit take down tactic thinking he could get away with it like in the past..
Imagine being the guy who took out a $350,000 mortgage on a house near Minneapolis just last month..
Why can’t they take the same approach they do with Obamacare: ‘Just fix the parts that are broken.’
Floyd was about to expose the counterfeiting laundering scam going on at the club.
talk about being at the right place at the right time.
Heard killer cop showed up late..prob heard it happening on the radio and went their pronto..
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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.
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I believe both Ellisons are Muslim. So he replaces the police with Shariah law enforcers?
Is he turning Minneapolis into Minniapolistein?
Just like the mayor of London turned London into Londonstein, with no go areas for law enforcement.
“Any guesses on what this transformative new model might look like?”
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Bingo!
Is that the picture featuring the idiot that has his rifle scope on backwards?
Are they going to cut off arms for theives and stone women who don’t conform to Islamic law?
Anarcheopolis
Uhhhh.....yeah.
They’ll replace them with the “people’s militia,” which means that the rioters and looters will become the “police”. Any takers? 2 to 1 odds.
Mogadishu
Especially white ones.
Even though they’ll never be able to dismantle the police department, I want the democrats to continue embracing the #defundthepolice movement. This isn’t a winning message...It’s suicide in an election year.
“Never interfere with an enemy while he’s in the process of destroying himself” -Napolean
Help me here. So if NYC and the rest of the super blue municipalities defund the police and replace them with social workers, why do they need no bail laws when there is no one to set no bail for? In cases of a 311 call for rape in progress, is a therapist dispatched to the scene to help predator and victim work out their relationship “issues”? Will criminal defense attorneys have to learn how to code to stay off the unemployment line?
Yes! Send the social workers in! Send the Council members and staff to do backup. Brilliant.
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