A judge ordered the city of Minneapolis on Thursday to hire more police officers after several residents sued over the lack of law enforcement in the face of a spike in violent crime.
The Hennepin County District Court judge ordered the Minneapolis City Council and Mayor Jacob Frey to “immediately take any and all necessary action to ensure that they fund a police force.”
The judge gave the city until June 30, 2022, to employ at least 730 sworn police officers. They are projected to have only 669 officers after an “exodus” through retirement, resignations, and officers taking extended leave.
A majority of Minneapolis City Council members committed to defunding the police force weeks after the death of George Floyd while in the custody of Minneapolis police in May 2020.
Although violent crime spiked in the city, Mayor Frey agreed to cut $8 million from the police force and reroute the money to violence prevention and mental health response initiatives.
Among the residents suing for more police was Don Samuels, a former member of the Minneapolis City Council.
“We have made the emotional appeal,” Samuels said. “We have demonstrated the statistical uptick and now this is the legal action we are exercising because it seems as if the City Council cannot hear us and doesn’t feel what we feel.”
The “Defund the Police” movement gained steam during the Black Lives Matter protests, but some like New Salem Baptist Church Rev. Jerry McAfee argued that it puts people at risk from crime.
“Let’s look at the facts! It has caused harm!” McAfee said to MSNBC about the “defund the police” movement.
“To defund the police right now is absolutely, positively, insane,” he added.
Here’s more about Minneapolis defunding police:
‘To Defund The Police Right Now Is Absolutely, Positively Insane’ : Minneapolis Resident
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That’s what they wanted so they got to live with it. Maybe next time they use there Brain’s first but socialist people don’t use them.
You are correct. For dummocRATS it’s all about “feelings and social gratification”. Hell is coming to the left and much sooner than they realize. Populations all over the globe are in uproar caused by the pandemic and they realize it was/is the liberal agenda causing the carnage.
Ya get what ya voted for. They wanted to defund so suffer.
Keep electing the Democrats and see where you end up.
How about the judge order that the mayor resign or be prosecuted for dereliction of duty in which his oath of acceptance of the office requires his first responsibility is to protect the lives and property of the residents of Minniapolis ?
How about you learn to spell M-I-N-N-E-A-P-O-L-I-S-
Hopefully the Minneapolis voters remember the foolishness and ignorance of the their city council and mayor during the next election. I guarantee you that victims of the exploding crime will remember. Throw out the trash.
Look out judge, they will get you too!
Useless order unless Democrats are removed from all elected office positions.
My hope is that NO NOT ONE individual applies to be a law enforcement agent in Minneapolis. These idiots need to live what they created. And any potential police officer needs to realize that Minneapolis WILL NOT support you when something happens. Let them suffer – they choice this path and they deserve exactly what is happening to them.
The judge orders the city to hire more Police; however, what happens when the city gives a party and only the criminals show up?
The globalist puppet mayor will start hiring the illegal criminal invader voters without even taking a test .
This is one time I disagree with the court.
I say remove ALL police from Minneapolistan, and let the damned place burn to the ground, and as the lefties abandon the s**t-hole like rats off a sinking ship. . .destroy them just like you would the filthy rats!