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Ilhan Omar plays to her radical base: 'Time to disband Minneapolis Police Department'

Andrew Mark Miller
Washington Examiner
Fri, 05 Jun 2020 16:46 UTC

Rep. Ilhan Omar called for the Minneapolis Police Department to disband following the highly publicized death of George Floyd while in its custody.

"The Minneapolis Police Department has proven themselves beyond reform," the Minnesota Democrat tweeted Friday. "It's time to disband them and reimagine public safety in Minneapolis. Thank you to @MplsWard3 for your leadership on this!"

Omar introduced four bills this week aimed at addressing police accountability, governmental response to police brutality, and providing funds for communities affected by police brutality.

Omar's call for disbanding the police comes as high-profile figures across the country are starting to push for abolishing and defunding police departments as a response to the death of Floyd and police brutality in general.

Singers Lizzo and John Legend joined women's soccer star Megan Rapinoe in signing a letter this week demanding "divestment from police."

"Every police department violating people's civil rights must be stripped of federal funding," Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders tweeted this week in a post that was retweeted by Omar's "Squad" colleague Rep. Rashida Tlaib.

Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti expressed support for stripping police funding after the city council introduced a bill that would slash the police budget by up to $150 million, with those funds being reallocated to communities affected by police brutality.

Comment: Tucker Carlson had some cogent words on the matter. "Without the police, there is only the rule of of the mob. But with people like this [who favor the disbanding], they don't fear the mob, because they control the mob"

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HashAttack2 · 2020-06-06T17:30:30Z

Cool, it can be "Purge Night" every night

Joyly · 2020-06-06T23:16:05Z

Why would American police be trained by Israeli militia, unless someone wanted to treat the people as the enemy? They don't need to be disbanded ( that would be throwing out the baby with the bath water) but they do need retraining and new guidelines.

Bezel Bub · 2020-06-07T00:08:44Z

Better yet...why dont we defund incestuous and racist foreigners who somehow managed to make it into CONgress ?

RBHoughton · 2020-06-07T00:17:09Z

Tucker Carlson is incorrect to say "without the police there is only the mob." That's misleading.

There is another form of policing that is used in parts of Japan. In it the policeman lives on his beat with his family. His children go to the local school. His home is his police station 24/7. He is a part of the local community which pays for his service and he does what they want. Its efficient and inexpensive. No distant government department is involved which makes it thoroughly democratic too.

This style of policing can be introduced in rural areas today and extended nation-wide.

Joyly · 2020-06-07T00:24:53Z

And since it serves the local community, who pays, it is less open to the current system of graft which dominates politics. I like it.

aj54 · 2020-06-07T05:37:20Z

RBHoughton not sure it would work in 'multicultural' America; the Japanese are very homogenous, and more circumspect in habit

Joyly · 2020-06-07T05:40:07Z

AJ54. You don’t think multicultural Americans would like the idea of community policing? Maybe feel like they had more input? More say?

aj54 · 2020-06-07T05:49:14Z

Joyly you are making an assumption, I said nothing against community policing, I just do not think the Japanese model would be a good fit, the one they are using works for them

Twodees · 2020-06-07T01:10:12Z

These democrats are forgetting that their idols, Obama, and earlier, Bill Clinton sang a different tune, wanting federal funding for local and state police with the federal control that comes with the money. Let the feds get out of policing altogether: no more arming civilian police with military weapons and equipment, no more federal cops at all, anywhere.

Congress has no authority to disband local or state police, and historically, Congress has been behind the increase in police powers at all levels. All of this coming from congresstwits is short-sighted and silly. Omar will likely be out of office in the next election anyway. She doesn't belong in any government position, being an unassimilated foreigner and corrupt to her core.

aj54 · 2020-06-07T05:35:31Z

hasn't she been investigated for marriage fraud, immigration fraud, and student loan fraud yet?

everywhere the police have been told to take a lighter touch, the violent crime explodes, mostly in poor black communities, which

is why most blacks do not want the police defunded

aj54 · 2020-06-07T05:43:10Z

"...the right of the people to PEACEABLY assemble..."

Highland Fleet Lute · 2020-06-07T07:10:12Z

'Afrocentricity' is a fraud, so is its hymn-sheet, so are all of its karaoke singers, of which you are but one.

"It's time to disband them and reimagine public safety in Minneapolis."

It's time to "reimagine" the fact that when you put your hand in the fire it gets burnt, and when it rains, the pavements get wet, too, I suppose.

Good luck with that.

BTW. You ain't black.

Highland Fleet Lute · 2020-06-07T12:21:06Z

Highland Fleet Lute BTW & BTB.

I guess Nefertiti signalling on TV is all part and parcel of the crazy-mixed-up karaoke 'cirque d'Afrocentrisme' we're witnessing at the moment, but do not adjust your set, the fact that Nefertiti was white is just there to splash a bit of 'colour' into the cauldron.

God forbid this woman should actually go out and do something useful, like invent the wheel.

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