MINNEAPOLIS, USA (AP) — A majority of the members of the Minneapolis City Council yesterday said 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.
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.”
The state of Minnesota launched a civil rights investigation of the department last week, and the first concrete changes came Friday in a stipulated agreement in which the city agreed to ban chokeholds and neck restraints.
In 2012, with crime rampant in Camden, New Jersey, the city disbanded its police department and replaced it with a new force that covered Camden County.
The move to defund or abolish the Minneapolis department is far from assured, with the civil rights investigation likely to unfold over the next several months.
