De-fund?

(cont'd from 9-22 post)

The New York Times reports that Minneapolis City Council regrets their decision to de-fund their police department (they did reduce funding). That decision came in the heat of the protests over the killing of George Floyd by a police officer.

Though Council members pledged in June to do it, now they're walking that back by saying council members understood "different interpretations" of the proposal. The mayor and a majority of citizens in opinion polls now oppose it. 

An activist group, Black Visions Collective, still wants to both de-fund and abolish the police. But another activist says "those paying the price . . [are] the exact communities that leaders had pledged to help." 

Gun violence grew over the summer.