It took less than two weeks after George Floyd's killing for Minneapolis City Council members to pledge to disband the police department. But activists had been laying the groundwork for years. Meet three of the people at the center of that effort:
The crowd at the June 7 rally where Minneapolis City Council members pledged to begin dismantling the city's police department.The crowd at the June 7 rally where Minneapolis City Council members pledged to begin dismantling the city's police department.
Seven months later, many of those same activists — organized as the Minneapolis chapter of Black Lives Matter — protested again after an officer killed Philando Castile during a traffic stop in a Twin Cities suburb. Black Visions found a fiscal sponsor, and its members agreed that their top priority would be advocating to abolish the city's police department. They helped form a second organization,, that since 2018 has lobbied the City Council to redirect funding away from the police and into social programs.
The Black Visions Collective had already planned its rally at Powderhorn Park for the next day, and Montgomery said she knew based on conversations with City Council members that some of them would be showing up to pledge support for ending the police department. Their report, titled"Enough is Enough," chronicled well-known but also long forgotten instances of police violence and failed reform efforts spanning decades. It argued that history had shown the police department could not be reformed, and should be abolished. And it went further, offering suggestions for what a public safety system without police might look like.
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