The decision is a giant step for activists as protests rise across the country, and could drive other districts to do the same.
A police officer prepares to shoot tear gas Friday, May 29, 2020, in Minneapolis.
with a racist Christmas tree, there was little concrete action from officials beyond incremental steps to reduce the number of officers and train police.Floyd’s death was different in part because the conversation seemed to have simply changed, said Nathaniel Genene, a student activist and a junior at a public high school in south Minneapolis.
“This vote is about justice,” said Siad Ali, the board’s director, during the meeting Tuesday. “It’s about time we end this contract with the Minneapolis police. They do not meet our values, and therefore, we will have no business with this organization.” The push, which Ahmed said she had learned about her freshman year of high school four years ago, had grown in city schools in recent years after a spate of killings and other incidents by police officers in and around Minneapolis.
Before the vote Tuesday, said one community organizer, adults had for decades dismissed students’ insistence that school resource officers, meant to enforce safety measures, had in reality made them feel less safe.
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