After Trying to Defund Police, Minneapolis City Council Asks: 'Where Are the Police?'

After Trying to Defund Police, Minneapolis City Council Asks: 'Where Are the Police?'

"Now that Al Sharpton has lost interest in Minneapolis — after all, there are no more televised funerals of criminal suspects who died in police custody for him to hijack — the rest of his comrades in the national media have moved on as well. 

The vultures got what they needed from George Floyd’s corpse and flew away, so now the people of Minneapolis are left to their own devices. 

Their riot-ravaged neighborhoods and crime-ridden streets don’t fit the preferred narrative, so they’re being ignored.

But the residents still have to live there. They’re still trying to go about their daily lives. The people who can afford to move away from Minneapolis are fleeing in droves, but what about the people who are stuck there? What can they expect from their local leaders, who have spent months trying to #DefundThePolice because it was trending on Twitter?

Minneapolitans can expect what we can always expect from politicians: whining, blame-shifting, and cowardly ass-covering. 

Brandt Williams, Minnesota Public Radio:

The meeting was slated as a Minneapolis City Council study session on police reform.
But for much of the two-hour meeting, council members told police Chief Medaria Arradondo that their constituents are 

• seeing and hearing street racing which sometimes results in crashes, 
• brazen daylight carjackings, 
• robberies, assaults and
•  shootings. 

And they asked Arradondo what the department is doing about it.
“Residents  are asking, ‘Where are the police’?” said Jamal Osman, newly elected council member of Ward 6…Read all.