Minneapolis City Council members have pledged to dismantle the city’s police department.
Key points:
- Councillors pledged to disband the police department in favour of “systems that actually keep us safe”
- Police departments elsewhere in the US have been disbanded in the past
- The Minneapolis Mayor said he was against the move
Nine of the council’s 12 members appeared at a rally in a city park on Sunday afternoon local time and vowed to end the current system of policing in the city.
They pledged to instead invest in a community-based public safety model, but did not provide specific details.
Minneapolis became the centre of both violent and peaceful protests following the death of George Floyd last month.
Mr Floyd, a black man in handcuffs, died afte