Legislators in Minneapolis are preparing to vote on the first slate of changes to police forces following the death of George Floyd, with some regional leaders saying they want to “take apart” the department in the middle of across the country demonstrations calling for systemic modification.
The Minneapolis City Council will vote on a short-term restraining order Friday to set up instant changes to the authorities department that might include increased accountability and shifts in use of force policies. However the body’s president, Lisa Bender, and councilmember Jeremiah Ellison composed Thursday they intended to ultimately replace police with a “transformative new design of public safety,” calling such modifications long “unpaid.”
Yes. We are going to take apart the Minneapolis Authorities Department and replace it with a transformative new model of public security. https://t.co/FCfjoPy64 k
— Lisa Bender (@lisabendermpls) June 4, 2020
We are going to dismantle the Minneapolis Authorities Department.
And when we’re done, we’re not just gon na glue it back together.
We are going to dramatically rethink how we approach public safety and emergency situation response.
It’s really past due. https://t.co/7WIxUL6W79
— Jeremiah Ellison (@jeremiah4north) June 4, 2020
Bender said late Thursday the modifications, if authorized, would be an immediate action to the violent treatment that resulted in Floyd’s death. However she noted they were just one step “toward really deep systemic modification.”
” We’re severe, and frankly I think the cops department has started the procedure of dismantling itself,” Bender informed HuffPost. “We really have no option but to go back and say: ‘What are the transformational changes we can make.'”
Those changes, Bender stated, could consist of increased funding to community-based security programs that would serve as an option to an official police and produce opportunities that would not require having equipped officers resp