Majority of Minneapolis City Council vows to disband police department
By Aris Folley - 06/07/20 06:35 PM EDT
The majority of the Minneapolis City Council vowed on Sunday to disband the local police department and replace the office with what members have said will be a new model of public safety, The New York Times reports.
The report comes two weeks after the death of George Floyd, an unarmed black man who died in Minneapolis on May 25 after a white police officer, Derek Chauvin, kneeled on his neck during an arrest.
Footage of the arrest, which immediately went viral late last month, prompted widespread protests in the nation and across the world in the weeks since, with demonstrators calling for an end to police brutality and racism.
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