Loading ...Minneapolis city councilors BACKTRACK on promise to dismantle police department and say the pledge was ‘up for interpretation’
Members of the Minneapolis City Council reveal their regrets on the collpased pledge to defund the police that was announced in June
Council president Lisa Bender said: ‘I think our pledge created confusion in the community and in our wards’
Councilor Phillipe Cunningham the pledge was ‘up for interpretation’ and ‘it was very clear that most of us had interpreted that language differently’
In August the city’s Charter Commission voted to pause the amendment to dissolve the police force and voted to take 90 more days to review it
This means the move to dismantle the police won’t make it on November ballot
Critics are bashing officials for not working together and for failing to define whether the move means to abolish the police altogether or reallocate funds