Councilors: 'We're going to dismantle the Minneapolis Police Department'

Bring me the news ^ | 4th June 2020 | Adam Uren

[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."

[Steely Tom]

I’m beginning more and more to believe that this was a set up to create just this outcome, unbelievably. I cannot fathom that any half-rational human being would willingly do something so egregiously irrational without some irresistible coercion involved.

The same thought occurred to me, but I can't see how he could have been coerced into this. But it is like he set off an incendiary bomb under a huge pile of dry timber. He couldn't possibly have done a better job of blowing up the country.

I hope he doesn't "commit suicide," but I bet he will.

[cgbg]

Somali warlords are available for the job...

[American in Israel]

Any guesses on what this transformative new model might look like?

[odawg]

“Are you willing to dismantle white supremacy in all systems, including a new system?”

So now white supremacy is defined as maintaining social order.

Any new system will of course be doing the exact same thing that the old system did. I don’t exactly know what they will freight with this sleight of hand.

I will have to admit, not in my wildest imaginings would I have ever thought that rampant riots and crimes would lead to a call to get rid of police protection and that call would get a serious hearing. Insanity now reigns.

[Ennis85]

I’m seeing a lot of leftists who are totally on board with this. Funny how these are the same people who lambasted George Bush for dismantling Iraq’s police force.

[dpetty121263]

Not to mention the criminal elements come a calling...

[HereInTheHeartland]

Mogadishu in Minnesota .
It will be lawless and ruled by militias

[rightwingintelligentsia]

I guess that means you’re supposed to tolerate “petty crimes” and not bother the Council with any calls, unless it’s something serious like someone trying to go to church when they’re not supposed to.

[ncpatriot]

That’s what I would do and I’m old with no place to go. I would just grab a few items and go south to Florida. ASAP. STAT

[Long Jon No Silver]

Probably like this

[Vision]

Minneapolis must be full of morons.

[cgbg]

I know a young professional couple who bought a house in Minneapolis a few years back.

I told them about the advantages of living in the country, but they didn’t get the message.

Now it is too late for them—they will take a financial bath when they try to get out...

[redshawk]

0buttWad would always say he wanted to fundamentally transform America. .....I guess this is part of it.

[Paladin2]

There’s going to be more calls of “City Council supporter Down”.

[The Toll]

Lol. Karen going to get raped in the street.

[Steely Tom]

Minneapolis must be full of morons.

I'm gonna go ahead and self-censor my response to that one too.

[American in Israel]

Mogadishu

[Mr. N. Wolfe]

“The dems need to be swept out of power and maybe this will finally do it. Maybe.”

I predict that it will be similar to Detroit after the 1967 riots. The radical Democrats will continue their stranglehold on Minneapolis and a lot of the citizens will migrate to the suburbs. This will make the suburbs even more Democrat not Republican.

[servantboy777]

Thank God I live in Texas...well...except Austin.

[stuck_in_new_orleans]

Can’t wait. Imagine how many lawsuits this city will have on their hands from “community enforcers” haha