【速報】米ミネアポリス市の過半数の市議が、市警の解体と新しい公共安全システムの構築を公約とする誓約に署名 NYT報道
【速報】米ミネアポリス市の過半数の市議が、市警の解体と新しい公共安全システムの構築を公約とする誓約に署名 NYT報道Majority of the Minneapolis City Council pledges to dismantle the Police Department.
Nine members ― a veto-proof majority ― of the Minneapolis City Council pledged on Sunday to dismantle the city’s Police Department, promising to create a new system of public safety in a city where law enforcement has long been accused of racism.
Saying that the city’s current policing system could not be reformed, the council members stood before hundreds of people who gathered late in the day on a grassy hill, and signed a pledge to begin the process of taking apart the Police Department as it now exists.
For activists who have been pushing for years for drastic changes to policing, the move represented a turning point that they hoped would lead to a complete transformation of public safety in the city.
“It shouldn’t have taken so much death to get us here,” Kandace Montgomery, the director of Black Vision, said from the stage at the rally. “We’re safer without armed, unaccountable patrols supported by the state hunting black people.”
