The president of the Minneapolis City Council, who went viral for saying that calling the police when your home is broken into “comes from a place of privilege”, has said she wants a “police free society”.
, Cuomo challenged Bender on the notion of getting rid of the police, something the host said “seems ridiculous to people”.
She replied: "We've looked at every reason that folks call 911. Why are people in Minneapolis calling for help? And we're starting to pair what's the right response to those calls. In the short term that helps our police officers focus on the work that they're trained to do, while we have a better response to people who have a mental health crisis or a physical health crisis.”She added: "The system of policing isn't working for a lot of victims of crime.
Earlier in the day, Bender made comments on CNN that were widely pilloried when she said that calling the police when your home is broken into “comes from a place of privilege.” The calls to dismantle the police force in Minneapolis have rapidly escalated in the wake of the death ofFloyd, a handcuffed black man, died May 25 after a white police officer pressed his knee into his neck for several minutes even after he stopped moving and pleading for air. His death set off protests, some violent, in Minneapolis that swiftly spread to cities around the U.S. and the globe.
Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey has said he doesn’t support abolishing the city’s police force, despite a veto-proof majority of members of the city council pledging that they want to take that drastic step.Get all the stories you need-to-know from the most powerful name in news delivered first thing every morning to your inbox
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