I just witnessed a murder.
You know he’s gonna cry when he gets in the car…
Jacob Frey: “my own shortcomings and I know there needs to be a deep-seated structural approach in terms of how the department operates. The systemically racist system needs to be revamped”
Protesters: “we know”
Jacob Frey: “the police union needs to be put in its place”
Protesters: “we know”
Jacob Frey: “we need to make sure that everything from the union contract to the way the arbitration functions…”
Protesters: *muffled disagreement* then start chanting “yes or no”
Organizer: “Jacob Frey we have a yes or no question for you, yes or no do you commit to defunding the Minneapolis police department”
Jacob Frey: *inaudible*
Organizer: “what did i say? we don’t want no more police. we don’t want people with guns totting around in our community shooting us down…”
Protesters: *erupt in cheers for the organizer*
Organizer: “…that was a yes or a no. yes or a no. Will you defund the Minneapolis police department”
Organizer: “alright be quiet ya’ll. it’s important that we actually hear this. it’s important that we hear this cos if ya’ll don’t know he’s up for re-election next year”
Protesters: *cheer*
Organizer: “if yall don’t know he’s up for re-election next year. And if he says no, guess what the fuck we gonna do next year”
Jacob Frey: “I do not support the full abolition of the police”
Organizer: “alright get the fuck out of here. GO GO GO”
Protesters: *erupt in a chant* “GO HOME JACOB GO HOME. GO HOME JACOB GO HOME”
Protesters: “SHAME SHAME SHAME”
Minneapolis leaders just voted, with a veto-proof majority, to disband their police department!
An excerpt from the ^ above article that you shouldn’t miss:
Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey said last night that he opposed disbanding the police department at a protest organized and led by Black Visions Collective against police violence in the city. That answer earned him a thundering chorus of boos and chants of “Shame!” and “Go home, Jacob, go home!” The New York Times called the scene a “humiliation on a scale almost unimaginable outside of cinema or nightmare.”