Minneapolis city council wants to replace police department

MINNEAPOLIS, MN (ABC News) — Minneapolis City Council members announced their intent to disband the city’s police department in favor of a more community-oriented agency.

“Our commitment is to end our city’s toxic relationship with the Minneapolis Police Department, to end policing as we know it and to recreate systems of public safety that actually keep us safe,” City Council President Lisa Bender said at a rally Sunday afternoon.

Binder said that “it is clear that our system of policing is not keeping communities safe. Our efforts at incremental reform have failed.”

The veto-proof majority group said it wants to shift toward a community-led public safety system, though at the moment the hurdles to disbanding the police are unclear.

Mayor Jacob Frey was booed out of a protest Saturday after he said he did not support abolishing the police department.