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Minneapolis City Council announces plans to disband police department
-Members of the Minneapolis City Council on Sunday announced plans to disband their embattled police department in the wake of worldwide protests over the killing of George Floyd at the hands of cops.
The nine councilmembers, who form a veto-proof majority, committed to de-funding the department and moving toward a community-based public safety model during a rally at the city's Powderhorn Park, local reports said.
"It is clear that our system of policing is not keeping our communities safe," said council president Lisa Bender, according to Fox9. "Our efforts at incremental reform have failed, period."
"It's our commitment to end policing as we know it, and recreate systems of public safety that actually keep us safe."
In a statement, the council said it would be "taking intermediate steps toward ending the MPD through the budget process and other budget and policy decisions over the coming weeks and months."
The 12-member body reportedly plans to begin voting on legislation targeting the department on Friday.
Over the weekend, Bender and several of her colleagues expressed their intent to drastically change how public safety is upheld in the city.
Bender told the Minneapolis Star Tribune that she envisions replacing a traditional police department with a broader, more holistic public safety department geared toward violence prevention and community services. Social workers or medics could respond to situations once handled by police, she said...
Minneapolis City Council plans to disband the police department
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When I first saw this I really thought it was an Onion article. It's not...it's real.
So sometime in the near future when there is an assault and battery, or a terrorist attack, or a gang fight or even an armed robbery the plan is to send out a social worker. Oooookay.
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Ignorance gone to seed. Insanity.
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And replace it with what?
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Pentecali
And replace it with what?
Per the last line of my opening post they would send out social workers and/or medics instead.
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Originally Posted by
Pentecali
And replace it with what?
Take your pick - black thugs or white thugs
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I prefer the LBTGQI friendly cops to patrol
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Minneapolis is going to have a problem as people and businesses who can, will flee the city. No one wants to live in that environment. That means everyone has to get a gun and defend themselves. Complete anarchy. Let's hope people realize how utterly stupid the whole idea of defunding and disbanding police departments are.
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You've got to see this ...
they ordered the mayor of Minneapolis to leave the protest after he refused to defund their police Dept.
I think he's a liberal isn't he?
Marcus Rogers - We Don't Want No More Police
This is the...
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Everyone should be happy for the Police.
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