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Because again, we go back to the fact that this is not going to be some federal commission, or even state commission or a city commission for anywhere that’s going to come up with, like, these are the rules for public safety now. So how do activists think about that?For a lot of the activists that I spoke to, the issue was about centering public safety on communities. We see Ahmaud Arbery.Should that be a concern, then? he said in a statement.

But what would that actually look like?Angry protesters shouted at Mayor Jacob Frey in Minneapolis on Saturday. And so you will get even the more moderate folks to say that, to buy into that. She said she hoped to reallocate some money from policing, which received $189 million in the 2020 budget, to other areas of need in the city.Councilman Jeremiah Ellison, who represents North Minneapolis, said he would not frame what the Council was doing as defunding the police, but rather as “funding a different safety strategy.”He said: “Is the goal to execute some kind of vendetta against M.P.D? Some cited as an example how, in the days after the killing of Mr. Floyd, Patrisse Cullors, co-founder of Black Lives Matter and chair of Reform L.A. Jails, said the move by the Minneapolis City Council members had shifted the movement to rethink policing from the fringe to the mainstream.“This is massive,” Ms. Cullors said.

Go home, Jacob, go home!And he turns around, and he just kind of walked off into the sea of people. So you have lots of cities where the clearance rate on homicides and other investigations is miserable. This is a pledge that they are going to defund the police.

Meanwhile, state-level reforms continue. getYou had white people, black people, Asian people, all putting their fists in the air, shouting, defund the police, defund police. Frey said on Sunday that while he opposed dismantling the Police Department, he would “work relentlessly” with the city’s police chief and the community “toward deep, structural reform and addressing systemic racism in police culture.” He added that he was “ready to dig in and enact more community-led public safety strategies.”The City Council voted on Friday to accept a civil rights investigation of the police by the Minnesota Department of Human Rights and to amend the Police Department’s use-of-force policy to ban chokeholds, among other measures.Protesters’ cries to defund or abolish the police are often not meant literally.

I did talk to one council member who said, maybe there’s still police, but for very, very limited role, and many of their responsibilities are farmed out. According to police, officers arrived and found Floyd, believed to be in his 40s, inside of his car. Maybe that’s some sort of mobile units with social workers sitting in it, and people are trained in using force and different things. "This officer failed in the most basic, human sense."

This is “The Daily.”Today, several major U.S. cities are now proposing ways to defund and even dismantle their police departments. Shame! He kind of made his way through the crowd, walked up to the front, and you had one of the lead organizers for a group called the Black Visions Collective. And at that moment, it was like this emotional eruption. So even if the mayor, Jacob Frey, does not want this to happen, if that coalition sticks together, they can do this on their own. !So just to be clear, this is not a vote, and not necessarily even a pledge to vote, but this is a public commitment to defund the police — to do the very thing that the mayor, when asked, declined to agree to 24 hours before.Yes, exactly.

Subscribe to our daily newsletter to get more of it. Mr. Frey quietly exited through an angry crowd as many shouted “Go home, Jacob Frey!” and “Shame!