{"id":76149,"date":"2020-12-17T07:21:46","date_gmt":"2020-12-17T13:21:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=76149"},"modified":"2020-12-17T07:21:46","modified_gmt":"2020-12-17T13:21:46","slug":"orwell-overestimated-minneapolis-dflers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=76149","title":{"rendered":"Orwell Overestimated Minneapolis DFLers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>From the never-ending &#8220;It depends on what the meaning of the term &#8216;is&#8217;, is&#8221; files &#8211; after seven months of demanding the defunding of the police, and a week of acting on it, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-9062431\/Minneapolis-city-council-members-claim-never-advocated-defunding-police.html\">members of the Minneapolis Student Senate&#8230;er, City Council claim they&#8217;re just misunderstood<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>In June,\u00a0Minneapolis city council members Steve Fletcher and Phillipe Cunningham appeared with seven colleagues on a stage bearing a huge sign reading &#8216;Defund Police&#8217; during a protest in Powderhorn Park.<\/p><p>Now, the duo seem to be mincing words, with Fletcher telling\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/kstp.com\/news\/minneapolis-city-leaders-set-on-transforming-public-safety-lay-out-the-path-forward-december-15-2020-\/5952517\/\">KSTP-TV<\/a>\u00a0on Tuesday: &#8221;Defund&#8217; is not the framework the council has ever chosen,&#8217; as Cunningham audibly agreed.\u00a0<\/p><p>&#8216;If we&#8217;re going to look at how we fund different programs, it would be very hard to do that without taking that money from the Minneapolis Police Department,&#8217; he continued.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Have you ever noticed that the only <em>establishment <\/em>media that ever actually reports on Minneapolis is in the UK?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the never-ending &#8220;It depends on what the meaning of the term &#8216;is&#8217;, is&#8221; files &#8211; after seven months of demanding the defunding of the police, and a week of acting on it, members of the Minneapolis Student Senate&#8230;er, City Council claim they&#8217;re just misunderstood: In June,\u00a0Minneapolis city council members Steve Fletcher and Phillipe Cunningham [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,17,374],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime-and-punishment","category-minneapolis","category-social-justice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76149","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=76149"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76149\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76150,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76149\/revisions\/76150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}