The Minneapolis public school system will no longer pay the police department $1.1 million to put school resource officers on campus
Police in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Photo: Scott Olson/Getty Images The Minneapolis Public School board is canceling its contract with the city’s police department, following a unanimous vote on Tuesday. It had previously budgeted $1.1 million to employ school resource officers , according to Mpls.St.Paul Magazine, a program students and organizers have been challenging for years.
“I value people and education and life,” school board chairwoman Kim Ellison told the Star Tribune. “Now I’m convinced, based on the actions of the Minneapolis Police Department, that we don’t have the same values.” As Mpls.St.Paul reports, student groups and youth activists have long pushed for the removal of SROs from schools. Indeed, in 2016, when a police officer fatally shot Philando Castile in a Minneapolis suburb, a student group called Our Turn began advocating for the MPS board to oust law enforcement from the educational landscape. Last week, its members wrote a letter demanding the board terminate the police contract.
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