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Years after a movement to defund the Minneapolis Police Department and a severe officer shortage in the wake of George Floyd’s murder, the city approved a contract Thursday that would make ...
Several city council members received death threats in the wake of the pledge to defund the city's police. It was revealed in July 2020 that on June 7, 2020, the same day that they pledged to "begin the process of ending" the police department, Council Members Cano, Cunningham, and Jenkins used $152,400 in city funds to hire private security ...
Opponents say the measure would make good on the city council's threat in the days after Floyd's death to "defund the police." They say Minneapolis, with a population of about 430,000 people ...
Minneapolis City Council President Lisa Bender and other council members made their pledge at a community rally Sunday. The city's police department has drawn intense criticism since George Floyd ...
A "defund police" sign and stage before a rally in Minneapolis on June 7, 2020. In Minneapolis, activist groups Reclaim the Block and Black Visions Collective requested for the police budget to be cut by $45 million. [86] Members of the Minneapolis City Council signed a pledge to dismantle the police and create new public safety systems.
On June 7, 2020, at a Powderhorn Park rally organized by Black Visions Collective and several other black-led social justice organizations, nine of the 13 members of the Minneapolis City Council vowed before a large crowd to dismantle the city's police department.
The Minneapolis Reckoning shows why calls to defund the police gained momentum after George Floyd's death and why voters with no love for the cops still rejected an abolitionist ballot measure.
Minneapolis City Council members who tried unsuccessfully to dismantle the police department in response to George Floyd’s death are voting Wednesday on whether to shrink it, a move that could ...