Nine members of the Minneapolis City Council pledged their support for “dismantling” the city’s police department, representing a veto-proof majority of the 13 city council members.
The council members announced their position Sunday from the stage at a rally organized by black activists in response to the May 25 killing of George Floyd while in police custody.
“We will be taking intermediate steps toward ending the MPD through the budget process and other policy and budget decisions over the coming weeks and months,” council member Andrea Jenkins and council president Lisa Bender told the crowd at Powderhorn Park.
The lawmakers said there are still many details to be worked out about what a Minneapolis without police might look like.
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