On Monday, the Minneapolis City Council promised to disband the city’s police department, with the nine members making a veto-proof majority to support the decision…
Demands by protesters to “defund the police » following George Floyd’s death have already caused widespread debates about the meaning of this slogan, which is not only about stripping police agencies of their money but also aims to underscore the necessity of resolving systemic problems pertaining to these agencies.
Black Lives Matter (BLM) is an international human rights movement that campaigns against violence and systemic racism towards African American people.
Activists from the group MPD150, in turn, signalled their readiness to work « towards a police-free Minneapolis », an action that they claimed would be more about “strategically reallocating resources, funding, and responsibility away from police and toward community-based models of safety, support, and prevention ».
The group wrote on its website that “the people who respond to crises in our community should be the people who are best-equipped to deal with those crises”.
