MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Minneapolis Police Chief Medaria Arradondo on Wednesday urged voters to reject a ballot question that would replace the city’s police department, saying it would do nothing to address the issues laid bare with the death last year of George Floyd.
Voters will decide Tuesday whether to approve a new public safety unit that would take “a more comprehensive public health approach” to policing. The ballot question would also drop a required minimum number of police officers and give City Council members more oversight of police.
Opponents have said the proposal is vague, with no specific plan for the replacement, and Arradondo took up the theme in his remarks.
He said he wasn’t sure what the ballot question would do, but he said he was sure it would not stop police having dangerous interactions with citizens, would not help recruiting and retention and wouldn’t suddenly change a police culture that critics say is brutal.
Opponents have warned that Arradondo, the city’s popular Black chief, could leave if the ballot question passes. Arradondo sidestepped questions about that on Wednesday, saying he hasn’t had conversations with his family or Mayor Jacob Frey about his future.
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“that would take “a more comprehensive public health approach” to policing”. In other words, do not prosecute criminals, because if one prosecutes criminals, you are racist and you are not “woke”!
THEN THEY hav no one to blame for the massive increase in crime they will get, OTHER THAN THEMSELVES… And don’t they DARE COME BEGGING ANYONE ELSE to come in and save their sorry *****…. CAUSE WE WON’T give a rats butt.
That would be a great idea.
Rather—replace the city’s excuse for leadership.
This floyd guy was a know drug addict and this is exactly how satan gets his hooks into the lesser intelligent people by continually announcing how the criminals are not to blame for crime but law enforcement. Exactly how the democrats blame honest hardworking Americans for the criminals who burn, loot, murder, rape and steal. All for a vote. When God has the final decision about their eternal place it hopefully will turn the lightbulb on in their empty heads but unfortunately for them it will be too late.
Like Ecclesiastes said ” There is nothing new under the sun” It’s the same old socialist Bolshevik game plan used by Lenin to so disrupt the established government and weaken it to the point it falls right into their hands, one of the first acts being, to take over the police departments and remove that protective power that stands between THE PEOPLE and the socialist criminals seeking to enslave them, who the Party considers mere collateral damage, when even their own are killed in street violence that destroys businesses and promotes fear, where THE PEOPLE’s lifeblood and personal property is the Social currency used to be freely spent to acquire their goals of purchasing a brave new socialist world, with other peoples money and life force of course. The COVID fraud, is just the crisis of selection created that they never let go to waste, and use to their own benefit, no matter how many collateral damaged elderlies die like in New York. Trumps’ entire family would have ended up like the Romanovs if they felt their media was strong enough to cover it up, and they could get away with the crimes.
This Socialist Marxist Progressive Democrat Party has already gotten away with several crimes. One of the biggest is refusing to ENFORCE The USA’s illegal immigration laws, just to start the list.
And unfortunately, SINCE THEY CONTROL THE LAW enforcement and justice system, i fear they will NEVER EVER BE PUNISHED for it.
The left has no real plan for their comprehensive public safety unit, it’s all about getting rid of the police! Treating mental health issues, they say, is the way to go about dealing with crime except those issues rarely come to light until after a crime has been committed which is often too late for the victim!
Minneapolis is kind of like a Petri dish. It’s fascination to see what they grow there. If there are enough people there to actually vote to get rid of the police then they truly deserve what happens once they’ve done that.
On the other hand, will it be the people who vote for that or will the ballots be counted until they have enough votes to accomplish it?
SINCE it;s a libtard hellhole city, OF COURSE they will keep counting “till they get the magic number of votes needed to pass this ballony”.