Minneapolis councillors float new plan for police department
by The Associated Press
Last Updated Jan 28, 2021 at 6:14 pm EDT
MINNEAPOLIS — Three Minneapolis City Council members who pledged to dismantle the city’s police department in the wake of George Floyd’s death announced a new proposal Thursday that they say would keep officers in the city but remove a requirement that calls for a minimum number of them.
The plan by Phillipe Cunningham, Steve Fletcher and Jeremy Schroeder calls for the city to replace its police department with a new Department of Public Safety that would include police officers and “additional divisions … to provide for a comprehensive approach to public safety beyond law enforcement.”