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It seems that virtually all the groups on the political spectrum—conservatives, libertarians, liberals, and progressives—are converging together to crush police unions. And that’s a shame, because the rights of policemen and women, as workers, should be fully defended.

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.

In many Democrat-led cities the calls to defund police will add to already increasing crime rates, the Wall Street Journal said.

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The Minneapolis Police Department will withdraw from police union contract negotiations, Chief Medaria Arradondo said Wednesday as he announced the first steps in what he said would be transformational reforms to the agency in the wake of George Floyd’s death.

Former Vice President Joe Biden’s campaign is remaining quiet about its staffers donating to a criminal justice group championing the defunding of police. 

Celebrated evangelical pastor Franklin Graham has slammed the leftwing movement to defund law enforcement as a recipe for anarchy.

The owner of a manufacturing plant in Minneapolis, Minnesota, says he will move his business out of the city after officials failed to protect his livelihood from being set on fire in riots this month. 

American officials and police may be turning Minneapolis into a new Somalia, according to Somali immigrants showcased in a New York Times article.

Monday on CNN’s “New Day,” Minneapolis City Council President Lisa Bender defended her council’s attempt to disband the Minneapolis police department following the death of George Floyd.

“Black Lives Matter” has become America’s version of China’s Cultural Revolution — a radical purge, led by youth, of the vestiges of traditional culture and authority within a one-party state.

A veto-proof majority of the Democrat-dominated Minneapolis City Council promised a Black Lives Matter protest a “police-free future.”

Joe Biden’s campaign was asked Sunday to comment on the demands across the nation to defund the police, but he did not want to talk about it.

Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey (D) appeared to cry while wearing as mask as he knelt before George Floyd’s casket at Floyd’s memorial.

Minneapolis protesters told Mayor Jacob Frey (D) he was no longer welcome to demonstrate against the death of George Floyd — an African-American man who died in police custody in the city — after he refused to commit to defunding its police department. 

Mayor Jacob Frey (D) is seeking federal aid to help Minneapolis recover from the protests and riots that have wrecked the area.

A little girl in Minneapolis, Minnesota, is using her artistic abilities to help people affected by the destructive riots following the death of George Floyd.

Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) on Friday called for the Minneapolis Police Department (MPD) to be disbanded and for the city to “reimagine” public safety after local protests over the death of resident George Floyd descended into riots and looting.

Minneapolis, Minnesota, city officials say the city will “dismantle” the Minneapolis Police Department (MPD) and “replace” the agency.

A Minneapolis middle school in the middle of a “food desert,” because of riots that began following the death of George Floyd, asked people to donate food for students and received an overwhelming response from people who wanted to help.

America is too large to have law and order in its streets maintained by the president without local officials’ help, said Ken Blackwell.

Pope Francis called Los Angeles Archbishop José H. Gomez Wednesday to “express his prayers and closeness to the Church and people of the United States in this moment of unrest,” the archdiocese reported.

Canadian police chief Scott Gilbert kneeled before Black Lives Matter activists clambering on the city war memorial in Peterborough, Ontario, after they asked officers to attend their demonstration and either lie down or “take a knee”. 

“We’ve been dealing with far right-wing, and white supremacist groups terrorizing our community by burning down black-owned businesses,” he claimed in the town hall on police reform 

Conservatives must make political inroads with black Americans or risk losing the country to the left, warned Sonnie Johnson, host of SiriusXM’s Sonnie’s Corner, offering her remarks on Tuesday’s edition of SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Daily with host Alex Marlow.

The Minnesota National Guard has been helping out communities impacted by the riots following George Floyd’s death last week in Minneapolis.

“An overwhelming display of force eliminates the need to use force,” said Tom Cotton, calling for use of the Insurrection Act to end riots.

Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison (D) is upping the charges against Derek Chauvin, the former cop who pressed his knee against George Floyd’s neck for nearly ten minutes, to second-degree murder, and he intends to charge the three other officers who were on the scene, according to a local report.

The Minneapolis school board has voted to end its contract with the Minneapolis Police Department following the death last week of George Floyd.

“Be a good communist and enforce the law,” said Joel Pollak, referring Democrat officials’s refusal to maintain law and order amid unrest.

CNNLOL’s Sara Sidner, who identifies as a “journalist,” encouraged and championed rioting in Democrat-run cities on Sunday.

“D.C. had no problems last night. Many arrests. Great job done by all. Overwhelming force. Domination,” Trump wrote on Twitter

A massive presence by law enforcement and National Guard members helped restore the peace in the twin cities of  Minneapolis and Saint Paul after several days of rioting and looting. Law enforcement officials successfully implemented a curfew and arrested some protesters who violated the order — bringing a night of peace to the city.

Two hours after President Donald Trump addressed the ongoing national riots on Monday evening, looting resumed in Hollywood.

Federal law enforcement officials are saying far-left groups are stoking violence at protests over the death last week of George Floyd.

A law enforcement official said that the semi-truck caught on camera hurdling towards a group of protesters on I-35W in Minneapolis was likely an accident, according to a report.

Donald Trump has authority to deploy the federal military and nationalize state militias via the Insurrection Act, explained Cully Stimson.