“This wouldn’t have saved George Floyd’s life,” Nekima Armstrong, a prominent local civil rights lawyer, activist and Minneapolis resident, said. “They’re doing this in his name, but in that situation the store owner would have still called the cops.”
to the police department since mere days after Floyd’s murder. He’s also against this latest proposal.
in September found that 49 percent of residents favored the ballot measure, with about 41 percent opposed in the majority Democratic city, setting the stage for a showdown at the ballot box.in the city since Floyd’s murder more than 18 months ago. And this proposal, to them, is not where to start. Crime continues to be a growing issue. Through September of this year, homicides were up 16 percent in comparison to the same time a year earlier, robberies were up 5 percent, and aggravated assaults had increased nearly 3 percent, according toBut now the city’s police department, once guilty of endangering the safety of the community, is facing a reckoning of its own on Tuesday.
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