Onward Together, a nonprofit group started by Hillary Clinton after she lost the 2016 presidential election, funneled $75,000 to a far-left group whose affiliate worked on a failed attempt to dismantle and replace the Minneapolis Police Department, Fox News first reported.
Neighbors with the Minneapolis Safety Initiative reportedly won a contract for $210,000 for more police patrols as crime plagued the area.
Minneapolis is set to spend $6.4 million to hire dozens of police officers as some City Council members and activists work to replace the department.
Members of the Minneapolis City Council claimed this week that the group never said it would defund the police department.
Residents of the Jordan neighborhood in north Minneapolis are suing the city over a lack of law enforcement protection, according to CBS Minnesota.
If you elected these failures, if you voted for a bunch of anarchists who would rather turn the city over to violent criminals than admit they went too far with their vote to abolish — yes, abolish — the police… Well, that’s on you.
The Minneapolis City Council on Friday approved a resolution declaring racism a “public health emergency” in the Democrat-controlled city following civil unrest triggered by the death of George Floyd.
The City of Minneapolis has spent $63,000 on private security details for three city council members who claim they have been subjected to threats in recent weeks.
The Minneapolis City Council on Friday unanimously approved a pledge to seek the replacement of its police department with a so-called community-led public safety system amid a pressure campaign spearheaded by Black Lives Matter activists and far-left Democrats to defund law enforcement in the wake of protests and riots over George Floyd’s death.
Lara Logan, a former CBS News journalist who was gang raped in Egypt in 2011, slammed Minneapolis City Council President Lisa Bender after Bender declared that calling the police for help comes from a “place of privilege.”
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) on Tuesday addressed the controversy over the widespread call to “defund” the police, attempting to offer a quick explainer on the demand for action but warning that the message should not be repackaged “to make it palatable for largely affluent, white suburban ‘swing’ voters.”
A veto-proof majority of the Democrat-dominated Minneapolis City Council promised a Black Lives Matter protest a “police-free future.”
