Minneapolis City Council Votes to Defund the Police, But 3 Members Hire Personal Security

Nine of the 12 members on the Minneapolis City Council, all Democrats except one member of the Green party, vowed they will abolish policing as the city currently knows it. Under the proposed plan, the police department will be replaced with a department of community safety and violence prevention that will be staffed with people who lack law enforcement experience but will include-public health and/or restorative-justice approaches – which means they will implement the demands of the communist-led rioters and destroyers. But when it comes to their own protection, council members are relying on the city to hire security guards. Council member Andrea Jenkins, a black transgender person, claims that white nationalists have made her fear for her life. Over the past three weeks, the bill for armed protection for council members has come to more than $60,000. -GEG

The Minneapolis City Council on Friday unanimously approved a proposal to eliminate the city’s police department, marking the first step toward establishing a new “holistic” approach to public safety.

The move follows more than a month of national outrage and protests against police brutality in the wake of the killing of George Floyd, a Black man who died after an officer pressed his knee into his neck for more than eight minutes.

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The City Council advanced a proposed ballot measure today asking voters to create a new Department of Community Safety and Violence Prevention. http://news.minneapolismn.gov/2020/06/26/city-council-advances-proposed-ballot-measure-asking-voters-to-create-a-new-department-of-community-safety-and-violence-prevention/ 

City Council advances proposed ballot measure asking voters to create a new Department of Community…

The City Council voted today to advance a proposed ballot measure that would ask Minneapolis voters to amend the City Charter to create a new Department of Community Safety and…

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