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Minneapolis Dismantling Police More Bluster Than Muster



Minneapolis Dismantling Police More Bluster Than MusterIt’s quite a show that Minneapolis City Council is putting on for the public, vowing to end policing as the city currently knows it—with council member Jeremiah Ellison, son of Minnesota AG Keith Ellison promising that council will “dismantle” the department. For Jeremiah, a perfect case of “all hat no cattle”. Council’s media-hyped Street Theatre includes their faux sparring with Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey, who claims—all for the sake of easy publicity—that he will refuse to abolish the police.

Like all councils, the Minneapolis City Council was elected to fix the potholes and take out the garbage

Like all councils, the Minneapolis City Council was elected to fix the potholes and take out the garbage. But yesterday nine of the council’s 12 members appeared at a rally in a city park, trying to make folk believe that it’s all but over for the Minneapolis Blue Line. “A majority of the members of the Minneapolis City Council said Sunday they support disbanding the city's police department, an aggressive stance that comes just as the state has launched a civil rights investigation after George Floyd's death.” (CBC, June 7, 2020) The move to defund or abolish the Minneapolis Police Department is far from guaranteed in light of the investigation into George Floyd’s death likely to be conducted over the next several months. The council’s power comes from its Public Safety & Emergency Committee (PSEM), which “exercises primary oversight of policies and service delivery related to public safety and emergency management, including the Police and Fire departments.” Members include Alondra Cano, (Chair), Steve Fletcher (vice chair), Phillipe Cunningham, Jeremiah Ellison, Andrea Jenkins and Linea Palmisano. Through its elected members, Minneapolis Council had strong ties to Black Lives Matter long before the tragic death of George Floyd. In 2015, PSEM chair and DFL Council Member Alondra Cano used her Twitter account to publish private cellphone numbers and e-mail addresses of critics who wrote about her involvement in a Black Lives Matter rally. (Wikipedia)

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“The Council is dominated by members of the DFL (the Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party with a total of 12 members.” Good luck finding this information on the Minneapolis Council PSEM page, which is currently hiding behind a Cloudflare CAPTCHA page, which resets itself and does not allow searchers in. The page asks asks “Why do I have to complete a CAPTCHA to get onto this page and then answers: “Completing the CAPTCHA proves you are a human and gives you temporary access to the web property.” WayBackMachine: Public Safety & Emergency Management Committee (PSEM)
“Nine of the council’s 12 members appeared at a rally in a city park Sunday afternoon. (CBC) "It is clear that our system of policing is not keeping our communities safe," Lisa Bender, the council president, said. "Our efforts at incremental reform have failed, period.” “Bender went on to say she and the eight other council members that joined the rally are committed to ending the city's relationship with the police force and "to end policing as we know it and recreate systems that actually keep us safe.”

“Community activists have criticized the department for years for what they say is a racist and brutal culture that resists change. “The state of Minnesota launched a civil rights investigation of the department last week, and the first concrete changes came Friday when the city agreed to ban chokeholds and neck restraints. “A more complete remaking of the department is likely to unfold in coming months.”
As for Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey, who New York Post reporter Miranda Devine calls a “half-price Justin Trudeau”? Well, it seems he’s very much a part of the Act. “Minneapolis’ boy of a mayor, Jacob Frey, proves that no matter how much you abase yourself to the mob, you can never be woke enough. (New York Post, June 7, 2020)


“In a scene reminiscent of a Maoist struggle session, he stood before two black protest organizers Saturday and confessed through a mask into a microphone that he was “coming to grips with my own brokenness.” “But the organizers, standing on a platform above him, weren’t interested in providing therapy for this 38-year-old man-child. “Yes or no?” asked a woman with a microphone. “Will you commit to defunding the Minneapolis Police Department … We don’t want no more police.” “Poor Frey couldn’t bring himself to say yes so his fate was sealed. “Get the f–k out of here!” she snarled and he was forced into a ritual walk of shame through the jeering crowd as they chanted “Go home, Jacob!” “The only thing missing was a sign around his neck listing his transgressions. “Frey also made a spectacle of himself in front of hundreds of people in a Minneapolis chapel at a memorial service Thursday for George Floyd, the black man whose death under the knee of a white police officer has sparked nationwide protests.

“Kneeling beside Floyd’s golden casket, Frey’s body trembled with great heaving sobs, as people nearby looked on in wonderment. “Someone should tell this half-price Justin Trudeau to stop wallowing in his own brokenness and start repairing his broken city. “There is no patience for self-indulgence amid the ruins. If Minneapolis had a grownup mayor instead of a snowflake, the rioting and looting of the past two weeks might have been nipped in the bud and America spared more pain piled on top of the pandemic. “Instead, the nation suffers due to one man’s inadequacies. “Frey is the perfect representative of a Democratic Party that has moved so far left it is eating itself alive.
Meanwhile, even though Minneapolis City Council is far more bluster than muster, even though the city’s vapid mayor is more like Little Boy Bossed than Little Boy Lost, the show, staged in part by Black Lives Matter, must go on.

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