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To: Wharf Rat who wrote (1237539)	6/8/2020 10:27:14 AM
From: RetiredNow	1 Recommendation Recommended By Mick Mørmøny Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1573696

So now that BLM has the eye of the nation, what are they doing to make black lives better? Well, naturally, they are defunding the police, because that's the first thought all reasonable people have, right? I think since Ilhan Omar and BLM has vociferously supported the "defund the police" movement, we are going to see rampant crime in Minneapolis. It already looks like a bombed out Syrian city after the BLM riots took place there. Looks like the city council has a majority support for this initiative. So it's going to happen for real. Do you think Somalia will create a refugee program to take back the Somalian refugees that fled to Minneapolis to get away from the armed thugs in Somalia? They are going to want to go back to Somalia real soon, when armed thugs coming crashing through their doors and windows in Minneapolis. You know what? I am now convinced that I should support the "defund police" effort wherever the Democrat Mayors, council members, and Governors are pushing for it. That is going to absolutely destroy the Democrat cities and states. So those people will be so disgusted, they will leave in droves for Republican administered cities and states and likely they will convert to Republicans, just so they can live in a peaceful city where police officers answer their calls for help. Yes, I'm all in now. I've said it before, your party will win and you will get everything you want, including cities with no police, rampant crime, and you will never know peace and tranquility. Communism really sucks. You are about to find out why. --------- Minneapolis city council pledges to disband police Andrea Shalal WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Minneapolis city council members pledged to abolish the police force whose officer knelt on the neck of a dying George Floyd, as the biggest civil rights protests in more than 50 years demanded a transformation of U.S. criminal justice. Demonstrations have swept a country slowly emerging from the coronavirus lockdown in the two weeks since Floyd, an unarmed black man, 46, died after choking out the words “I can’t breathe” under the knee of a white police officer. Though there was violence in the early days, the protests have lately been overwhelmingly peaceful. They have deepened a political crisis for President Donald Trump, who repeatedly threatened to order active duty troops onto the streets. Trump took to Twitter around midnight to lash out at the boss of the National Football League, America’s biggest sport, who, in a sign of a cultural shift, swung behind protesting players and adopted their slogan “Black Lives Matter”. Huge weekend crowds gathered across the country and in Europe. The high-spirited atmosphere was marred late on Sunday when a man drove a car into a rally in Seattle and then shot and wounded a demonstrator who confronted him. “I have cops in my family, I do believe in a police presence,” said Nikky Williams, a black Air Force veteran who marched in Washington on Sunday. “But I do think that reform has got to happen.” The prospect that Minneapolis could abolish its police force altogether would have seemed unthinkable just two weeks ago. Nine members of the 13-person city council pledged on Sunday to do away with the police department in favor of a community-led safety model, though they provided little detail. “A veto-proof majority of the MPLS City Council just publicly agreed that the Minneapolis Police Department is not reformable and that we’re going to end the current policing system,” Alondra Cano, a member of the Minneapolis council, said on Twitter. In New York, Mayor Bill de Blasio told reporters he would shift some funds out of the city’s vast police budget and reallocate it to youth and social services. He said he would take enforcement of rules on street vending out of the hands of police, accused of using the regulations to harass minorities. Curfews were removed in New York and other major cities including Philadelphia and Chicago.