Remember the violent protests (riots) in Minneapolis, and the demands to abolish the police? Remember the claims by the Left that citizens lived in fear of the police and would be better off without them?
And do you remember Conservatives saying that disbanding the police would result in a crime wave, and that the surge in crime would dis-proportionally effect poor and minority neighborhoods?
So what happened?
Congresswoman Ilhan Omar from Minnesota blames the police, calling them “the most dysfunctional in our state and probably in the country” and claiming “the police have chosen to not fulfill their oath of office and to provide the public safety they are owed to the citizens they serve.” Meanwhile, Omar is supporting a Nov. 2 ballot measure that would eliminate the requirement that the city have a minimum number of officers based on the city’s population.
And while minority neighborhoods suffer as crime sky-rockets, Democrats like Ilhan Omar, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ayanna Pressley, and Cori Bush (who are pushing to de-fund the police) enjoy the protection of their own private police forces costing $22000, $10000, $4000, and $65000!
- https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8248252/
- https://twitter.com/MikeKBerg/status/1452727174423891975?s=20