The City of Minneapolis is spending $4,500 a day for private security for three council members who have received threats following the police killing of George Floyd, FOX 9 has learned.
A city spokesperson said the private security details have cost taxpayers $63,000 over the past three weeks.
The three council members who have the security detail – Andrea Jenkins (Ward 8), and Phillipe Cunningham (Ward 4), and Alondra Cano (Ward 9)– have been outspoken proponents of defunding the Minneapolis Police Department.
Councilmember Phillipe Cunningham declined to discuss the security measures.
“I don’t feel comfortable publicly discussing the death threats against me or the level of security I currently have protecting me from those threats,” said Cunningham in a text message.
This is an excerpt from Fox 9 in Minneapolis.
Ah, typical liberals,!!!!!! Do as I say, because I am your communist master, but not as I do. Hey liberals, keep voting in communists, like Ilhan Omar and AOC!!!!!!!
Or have your boyfriend/girfriend call in fake threats to get free protection just in case. These three make Jesse Smallet look like an amateur and have probably been coached by Al Sharpton.
By the looks of her, Andrea Jenkins is good at giving people financial scalping haircuts.
Please tell me why these people should be secure, especially when they vote to keep the rest of the City unsecure. It is easy to say people need not be protected, when you are protected. Let them, as they expect the people paying for their security, go unprotected. AHHHH, the shoe on the other foot.
AND HOW IS IT even legal, for City workers to BE ALLOWED TO USE CITY FUNDS, to hire “PRIVATE” security’ anyway!
46 years of Liberal Democratic leadership in the city and this is where you end up. The voters need to take heed…..
To the citizen of Minneapolis, you voted these sorry liberal idiots into office and now you have no security, but theses 3 do at the cost of
I’ve often said, i’d LOVE To see an asteroid fly in and level LA, NY and such… MINNEAPOLIS now joins the list of cities, i’d CELEBRATE if it ever got flattened.
OK I know I saw someone here predicting this exact thing. Who won this week’s Dictatorial Socialist Hypocrisy pool?
Oh, sadly the odds of this happening were 1:1. You won back the money you originally bet.
The only lives that matter to these communists are their own. Your life is insignificant to them…
Always has been…
Who says the rules are different for liberal Democrats than for ordinary citizens? Why the liberal Democrats of course who somehow think they deserve special treatment. These three are outsourcing the duties normally handled by the police that they now wish to disband; hypocrisy! The other residents of the city can live without police protection but somehow city leaders should be exempt from the decisions they make. Obviously they recognize the need for protection, but now the cost should fall on the individuals since they are taking it away from everybody else who cannot afford the same.
The taxpayers should be raising holy hell demanding to know why they are subsidizng this!
If we’re going to cut the police from the budget let’s cut this as well.
I smell a lawsuit. Doesn’t this violate the “equal protections” clause?
Someone SHOULD sue via that clause…. BUT i doubt any dimwit voters there, have the nads to do so.
These are “Rulers”, not Leaders!
Minneapolis will become little Chicago and when the light rail gets completed, the suburbs will be visited by criminals. Thank God for the 2nd. Amendment.
At that rate, it won’t take long to put a big dent in the coffers. So something else will have to go to pay for this. Which will it be? Welfare, children, the elderly….the die is rolling.
And as long as I’m thinking about this…why would they need security? I thought the libs disarmed everyone. So therefore, there are no guns in the hands of bad guys.
They need protection from the peaceful protestors.
The cops first. Once that budget is gone, then they’ll just raise taxes….
These Council officials do what they do . What would a logical person expect these types to do? The problem is the people of Minneapolis who voted to put these clowns in office. This is exactly what you get for your votes.
I told my wife that if these stupid yankee liberals defund the police we can sit back and watch the city get burned to the ground. So I now say let’s break out the popcorn cause it’s gonna be a helluva show!
Better put up some barbed wire to fend off the flee’rs.
AND land mines…
LOLOLOL typical. Liberal politicians call for de-funding/disbanding the police, and re-allocating YOUR tax money to ‘social’ programs (that never work) instead of your protection. Then they take MORE of YOUR tax money to hire private police for their own protection. How’d voting Democrat work out for you, Minneapolis??? LOLOLOL
Or as Sarah Palin would say,
How that “hopey changey” thing working out for ya?
Taxpayers should not pay for this, their decision, their expense.
As i’ve often remarked, imo it should be LAW, that anyone refusing to allow WE the people to be protected (Via either wanting to ban cops, or ban US from owning guns), SHOULD THEMSELVES NEVER EVER BE allowed to be protected BY ARMED MEN…
Let the ” Peaceful ” protests show how fine the young folks are in Minneapolis. Let’s let the young folks set up their dream of a proletariat Eden. Let’s watch our peaceful protesters burn down & destroy and loot millions of dollars worth of goods from those dishonest capitalists. Let us watch them shoot each other and innocent people in their Eden. Let’s defund that rotten Pole-eece dept. and bring back Flower Power. Oh , By the Way , we need to spend Thousands to protect our new ruling class because we cannot trust the Pole-eece…….Oh and let’s vote for Biden because he will heal America……
The private security companies should get together and refuse to protect them.
Yea, it makes you wonder, WHO the hell those companies are..
I think the defunded cops should quit & form private security firms that charge clients up the wazoo.
If there is no longer a public police force then the private firms can dictate their own pricing & terms.
To prevent security personnel risking jail or lawsuits: private firms can refuse to use any deadly weapons, pepper spray, tasers or physical force to protect anyone or any property except as needed in their own personal self defense.
Security firms may provide their clients at extra fee with various weapons of their choosing to carry / use at client’s discretion for self defense but clients will assume all legal risks for using such weapons although security personnel will be happy to provide video & witness testimony in support of clients need to use weapons.
The law abiding citizens & elected authorities of all skin colors in places choosing not to fund or legally protect & support a public police force should have to find out how it feels to be in fear for their life, assaulted, injured & possibly killed or risk going to prison, financial ruin & mob attacks if they insult, disrespect, injure or kill a black criminal regardless of the situation or provocation.
How’s about we GET RID of private security firms.. SO THAT WAY these mayors, and rich hacks in hollywood HAVE NO ONE TO DEFEND THEIR SORRY butts… BUT the cops.
THEN SEE how easily they would be, in defunding cops.
“All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.” – George Orwell – Animal Farm – August 1945. Seems like all leftists fulfill Mr. Orwell’s prediction of the behavior every time. Never saw a starving Communist in Soviet Russia or a starving party member in Mao’s China. Madero is not scrounging for food, water or gasoline in Caracas now. If they want to de-fund the police, let them pay for their own security detail.
I have long updated that Orwell quote to “some equals are more animal than others.”
Andrea Jenkins (Ward 8) is complaining about threats from “white nationalists”. ?? How convenient (must have seen a bowline somewhere).
I will bet that 70-80 of Minneapolis is complaining about actual violence and destruction from BLM and Antifa! And,… they are losing their protection.
If this is not the most blatant example of hypocrisy, I don’t know what is.
My next trip to Canada will bypass (or not stop) Minneapolis/St. Paul.
That should have read “70-80%”. Sorry
Djg. SINCE Butthead Truedau shanked over the entire population of Canada, by using this planned-demic, to flat out BAN guns (well just AR-15s for now), i’d NOT GO TO Canada, ever again. Do not give that nation, ONE RED CENT OF our dollars…
I agree 99.5%.
The Walleye in Ontario, @.5%, carry a big influence. I gotta go…
I do bring my own liquor, beer, and fuel.
The infuriating decision by the Minneapolis City Council to provide its members with private security protection while, at the same time, voting to abolish police protection for the city’s residents simply confirms what informed conservatives have known about radical leftists all along. Were it not for double-standards, they would have no standards at all.
Those three goofball-looking dwerks are council members????????? H*ll, let them spend whatever they like on personal security; they were elected by the citizens of MPLS, so let the citizens suffer for their sins. I’d like to think that this would teach Minneapolis voters a lesson, but it won’t – Leftists NEVER admit that they were wrong. They’ll come up with some sort of rationalization and vote the same way next time. People get the government they deserve.
PURE HYPOCRISY!
If not for such double-standards, the left would not have any standards at all!
Hey citizens of Minneapolis how does it fell to have no one to call for your security while these liberal idiots are letting you pay $1500 per person per day for these 3 council members. How does it feel to be screwed and not even kissed….lol. Keep voting for these liberal idiots…what ye sow so shall ye reap…..hehehehehehe.
Why private security?
Perhaps the police they voted to disband respectfully (/s) declined to do that job.
Or maybe the council members don’t trust the police after threatening the loss of their jobs.
Inquiring minds want to know.
AND WE have a right, to know what the NAMES of those security companies ARE…
SO WE can then start writing nasty grams to THEM, and companies that employ them, can start CANCELLING THEIR contracts.
I am certain it is public record.
Just because it did not require a bid (i.e under $175K), the vendor is known.
This no bid requirement is an old trick. Just limit the spending for each contract. Issue as many contracts as needed.
Communism is for the masses, not the communists.
Now I’m confused, I thought once the police were gone crime would stop. So why do they have security? I don’t know, could it be they were college educated and missed the classes on common sense? I want to say they lied to everyone but you know you can always count on Democrats to tell the truth, so that can’t be it. I know it can’t be the criminals fault, after all they’ve been letting them out of jail because it was the policeman’s fault they were in jail in the first place. Hmmm, all that’s left are the lizard people coming up from the center of the earth. Yeah that must be it. What a council of idiots.
ITS the same illogic behind gun free zones were supposed to stop mass shootings, but DIDNT!
Since these S.O.B.s are using tax payer money for their own little private army to defend them, it’s time for the tax payers to do what they’re doing in Seattle. LEAVE!!! Just leave the dummycrat voting behind. The rest of us don’t want our states all $#@%ed up.
OR REFUSE TO pay taxes…
A city spokesperson said the private security details have cost taxpayers $63,000 over the past three weeks.
Where are the marchers and rioters now ?
So when wil the first lawsuits for FAILING the 14th amendment’s EQUAL PROTECTION clause’, come.. SINCE THEY ARE FAILING TO PROTECT we the people, but are using OUR dollars to protect their own sorry butts..