The businesses object to Mayor Frey overstepping his authority, pushing the public to get vaccinated, forcing restaurants and bars to lose additional customers, and burdening the businesses with new costs to enforce the mandates.
Under their 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 approaches that will implement the demands of the communist-led rioters and destroyers.
A dozen suspected gang members are accused of preying on drunk people and robbing them. Robberies are up 53% this year in central downtown Minneapolis and, in one 20-day stretch, 47 people were attacked, most of them by pack hunters.