The Minneapolis authorities in the state of Minnesota announced that they decided to "dismantle and rebuild" the city police, two weeks after the killing of the black American George Floyd by a white policeman, who was brought before a court for murder for the first time yesterday, at a time when crowds in the cities of the United States came out in support of the descendants of African origins, and white protesters raised the slogan "silence of eggs violence" during their participation in an unprecedented intensity in this type of protests.
In detail, the municipal council in Minneapolis, Minnesota, decided last night, after the demonstrations, to dismantle the city police, which will no longer exist in its current form.
"We are committed to dismantling the police services as we know them in the city of Minneapolis, and rebuilding a new model of public safety that really guarantees the security of our community, in partnership with our citizens," Municipal Council President Lisa Binder told CNN.
She indicated that she intends to transfer the funds allocated to the city police budget to population-related projects. She added that the city council is also planning to study ways to replace the existing police. "The idea that there is no police force is definitely not a short-term project," she noted.
For its part, the council member, Alondra Kanoo, wrote on Twitter that the council concluded that the city police are "not reformable, and we will end the current system of maintaining security."
However, the city's mayor, Jacob Frye, informed before the council vote that he favored "a broad structural reform to re-establish this system of structural racism", and therefore the municipal council may need time to implement its promise to dismantle the police. The Democrats called, the day before yesterday , To a profound change in the police, accused of racism and violent practices against black Americans.
A law in the "Congress"
A number of Democratic "congressmen" are presenting a law aimed at reforming the police in the United States, considering that its practices against blacks are a racist result that imposes the history of the United States since the period of slavery. Some domestic measures have been taken since the wave of protests began.
In this context, the Seattle Police Chief banned the use of tear gas for 30 days. The Minneapolis police also announced a ban on arresting the detainees' neck as a dangerous shot. Thousands of people demonstrated at the weekend in the United States and around the world against racism, without these historical gatherings being accompanied by riots and looting, as happened in the days following the tragedy in a number of American cities, which led to the imposition of a curfew. But in Belgium, the police arrested 150 people, for their involvement in acts of sabotage on Sunday evening in Brussels, at the end of a gathering in which about 10,000 people participated.
Tens of thousands of Europeans from Bristol joined Budapest, via Madrid and Rome, on Sunday, to the demonstrations that started following the suffocation of George Floyd, 46, on May 25, as he suffocated, while a white policeman pressed his knee to his neck. In Rome, thousands of young people participated in an unprecedented demonstration in Piazza del Popolo square, and they knelt on one knee in silence, lifting their fists for about nine minutes. Demonstrators in Madrid raised their grip, in a sign that became a symbol of protest against police violence, after the former San Francisco Football Club player, Colin Copernic, made during the national anthem in 2016 to call on his country to protect the rights of Americans, especially blacks, from police violence. .
Derek Chauven was charged in the first instance with accusation of manslaughter, but the charges against him were intensified on June 4, and he was charged with murder, and he now faces a prison sentence of up to 40 years. As for the three policemen who were accompanying him when Floyd was arrested, they were charged with complicity and placed under arrest, after they had not been charged in any first stage.
These pursuits were at the heart of the demonstrators' demands, but responding to this request did not end the mobilization, but the movement expanded to spread to the world.
Democrats are calling for a profound change in the police, accused of racism and violent practices against black Americans.