After Jacob Frey refused to defund the Minneapolis Police Department demonstrators booed and also chanted, “Go home, Jacob, go home” as he left the protest
that he supported “massive structural reform” but said, “I’m not for abolishing the entire police department, I will be honest about that.”“If you’re asking whether I’m for massive structural reform to revise a structurally racist system the answer is ‘yes’.
If you’re asking whether I will do everything possible to push back on the inherent inequities that are literally built into the architecture the answer is ‘yes’. If you’re asking whether I’m willing to do everything I possibly can throughout the rest of my term to make sure that the police union, the police contract, the arbitration system, and some of these policies that have resulted in problems for specifically Black and Brown people and murder over series of generations, I’m all for that.
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