![]() They voted to disband and they wanted to put that on the ballot for 2020, but the charter commission, which is fifteen members appointed by the county’s chief judge, just rejected it. There had been very intensive organizing that was done to put pressure on them-but it has not happened. But I wanted to know more about it, and there isn’t a whole lot of reporting on this, so we’re talking to street medics and people who are out there protesting in the streets and doing mutual aid.Īnders Lee: May 25 was the anniversary of George Floyd’s death, following which there had been some really big news when the city council in Minneapolis announced they wanted to disband the Minneapolis Police Department. All the more reason to continue the fight there. This has happened a couple times in recent history and it seems like it happened again in Minneapolis. We’ll explain it in the interviews, but a guy named Winston Smith who was a rapper and a comedian and an organizer was assassinated by a group of US Marshals or some sort of federal task force that doesn’t have to wear body cameras because they’re above the police and they can operate in plainclothes and shoot before even announcing who they are. ![]() We just talked it out organically to get a snapshot of what’s going on.Ī lot of this is very important because we are living in the wake of the Winston Smith murder-or, as we will go on to refer to it later, assassination. What we’re going to get here is a series of interviews that are a bird’s eye view of the whole thing. I was pointed in the direction of a few people who are foot soldiers in the street resistance against the police. Jake Flores: I looked into a couple of leftist watchdog accounts that keep track of stuff like -there are a lot of undercover cops and shit like that out there. ![]() The police didn’t stop lying about killing people. ![]()
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