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Trump administration officials used a "seriously flawed" process when the rejected a Minneapolis grant request over City Council members' support for the defund the police movement, according to a ...
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 ...
"Defund the police", a phrase popularized by Black Lives Matter during the George Floyd protests. In the United States, "defund the police" is a slogan advocating for reallocating funds from police departments to non-policing forms of public safety and community support initiatives, such as social services, youth programs, housing, education, healthcare, and other community resources.
The University of Minnesota reinstated its relationship with Minneapolis Police Department on August 24, 2022. [59] Rising violent crime in the United States had resulted in backlash against efforts to "defund the police" and shifted public conversation away from police reform to reducing crime.
Blue and purple states signaled a shift toward more pro-law enforcement policies in the 2024 election and a rejection of Soros-backed district attorneys.
Minnesota National Guard M-ATVs in front of Uptown Theater on April 12, 2021. The killing of Daunte Wright, a Black [41] man, by a police officer took place in the adjacent Minneapolis suburb of Brooklyn Center on April 11, 2021. Protests and unrest over Wright's death intersected with the looming verdict in Chauvin's criminal trial.
A police officer points a hand cannon at protesters who were detained in Minneapolis on May 31, 2020, during protests following the death of George Floyd.
Then-Sen. Kamala Harris joins fellow Democrats from the House and Senate on June 8, 2020, to introduce new legislation to end excessive use of force by police and make it easier to identify, track ...