Remarkably, the same mayor whose lack of leadership led to the ruinous riots and burning of his city, doesn\u2019t agree with dismantling the Police Department. Yet in endorsing the governor\u2019s investigation, Frey said:<\/p>
\u201cFor years in Minneapolis, police chiefs and elected officials committed to change have been thwarted by police union protections and laws that severely limit accountability among police departments. \u2026 Breaking through those persistent barriers, shifting the culture of policing and addressing systemic racism will require all of us working hand-in-hand.\u201d<\/p>
What is it about the culture of politics in Minneapolis that failed time and time again to address what is now labeled \u201csystemic racism\u201d in the city\u2019s Police Department?<\/p>
Blaming the police union is, no pun intended, a cop-out.<\/p>
Blaming Republicans isn\u2019t an option as there isn\u2019t an elected Republican in the city as far as the eye can see.<\/p>
With their city in ruins from lawbreakers who burned it down, the same elected officials whose failed leadership did nothing to eliminate the racism they now lament have seized upon the solution: to disband their Police Department.<\/p>
Mayor Frey didn\u2019t condemn rioting and looting in his city when he should have but encouraged people intent on looting and burning to wear face masks and stand 6 feet apart from one another.<\/p>
When a couple of news conferences professing his love for Minneapolis and delivering stern stares at the camera failed to stop the violence, he abandoned the police headquarters in the Third Precinct.<\/p>
He left citizens and businesses alone to fend for themselves amid marauding mobs who claimed their prize by burning it down and the neighborhood along with it.<\/p>
The members of the Minneapolis City Council didn\u2019t step up either to protect their citizens. Now they purport to have the best interests of their city in mind with the idea that defunding and dismantling the Police Department is really a better way to ensure public safety.<\/p>
The lawless always want less law.<\/p>
Minneapolis City Council President Lisa Bender claims that calling police during an emergency is an act of \u201cprivilege.\u201d<\/p>
On the contrary, the first responsibility of government is to protect its citizens \u2014 all its citizens.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
It’s depressing that a bit of common sense like this in the public domain feels so extraordinarily wise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Norm Coleman – former Senator, and more appositely former mayor of Saint Paul – jumps back from retiredment to pimp-slap Mayor Frey and his City Council for demanding the defunding of the Minneapolis Police. They’re defunding the wrong part of government: Remarkably, the same mayor whose lack of leadership led to the ruinous riots and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,17,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime-and-punishment","category-minneapolis","category-pc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74490","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=74490"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74490\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74492,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74490\/revisions\/74492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}