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[3] [4] [5] The goals of the "defund police" pledge were never fully defined by city council members at the time of the pledge and the effort largely collapsed in the following months. A majority of Minneapolis city residents, including a large number of persons from the Black community, opposed a reduction in the size of the city's police ...
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 ...
Star Tribune via GettyIt was closer than she wanted, but progressive Rep. Ilhan Omar (D) narrowly defeated centrist Minneapolis City Council member Don Samuels in their primary matchup Tuesday ...
Nine of the 13 members of the Minneapolis City Council said Sunday they supported disbanding the police department. Together they make up a “supermajority,” which is essentially veto-proof ...
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.
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 ...
[35] [78] Minneapolis mayor Jacob Frey was booed by a large crowd of protestors after refusing to defund and abolish the police. [79] Nine members of the Minneapolis City Council—a veto-proof majority—pledged on June 7, 2020 to dismantle the Minneapolis Police Department, despite opposition from Mayor Frey. [80]
We were in the fight," said a supporter of the ballot initiative that would have replaced the Minneapolis Police Department. "We weren't blown out of the water. We were in the fight," said a ...