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Activists work behind the scenes at City Hall
to influence the future of public safety in Minneapolis

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Posted By: voxpopuli, 6/27/2021 9:14:16 AM

The first Minneapolis election campaign since the death of George Floyd is dominated by questions over the future of public safety in the city. Activists on both sides of the debate are working behind the scenes to influence the message and the policy coming out of City Hall. A global group whose lobbying arm is funding a campaign to replace the Minneapolis Police Department reached out in recent months to City Council members who pledged to fulfill that same goal. It later thanked them for sharing "fresh strategies to win." (snip) One of Local Progress' donors is the Open Society Foundations, a group founded by billionaire George Soros..

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SOROS Global Communism.. WHY did we know what is really behind these "spontaneous" local "protests"

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Reply 1 - Posted by: Nimby 6/27/2021 10:07:12 AM (No. 828006)
Why do we have laws on the books if they want Minneapolis to look like Somalia?
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Reply 2 - Posted by: Rokkitt 6/27/2021 10:14:53 AM (No. 828025)
Why is soros still breathing?
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Reply 3 - Posted by: reefdiver 6/27/2021 10:24:53 AM (No. 828036)
"Open Society' seems to mean no country.
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Reply 4 - Posted by: Jesuslover54 6/27/2021 11:41:55 AM (No. 828132)
Minneapolis doesn't count.
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Reply 5 - Posted by: Maggie2u 6/27/2021 11:47:15 AM (No. 828140)
If you took every single villain in every James Bond movie and rolled them into one, you would have george soros.
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Reply 6 - Posted by: bighambone 6/27/2021 11:50:52 AM (No. 828142)
Looks like they want to abandon the word “Police” and instead plug in the name “Public Safety” as a new moniker for what will still be the same law enforcement agency. The important thing is what will that newly named agency do about enforcing the law and actually abate violent crime. With the leftist and socialist city government there, I would say that not much will change as long as leftist and socialists are actually running the show.
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Reply 7 - Posted by: DVC 6/27/2021 11:53:17 AM (No. 828146)
More properly "the future of public insecurity in Minneapolis". Dangerous, dangerous communist destroyers at work, like termites in the woodwork.
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Reply 8 - Posted by: JimBob 6/27/2021 12:35:01 PM (No. 828196)
Don't neglect that Bai-den's advisers are pushing, via the trillions-of-dollars 'Infrastructure' bill, for a federal government takeover of local zoning laws. Part of this 'national zoning' would force apartment buildings into single-family neighborhoods. This is nothing more than seeding future ghettos, with the attendant crime, throughout the now safe and peaceful suburbs all across the country.
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Reply 9 - Posted by: bad-hair 6/27/2021 1:13:26 PM (No. 828229)
FTA ... With Minneapolis politics under national scrutiny, and many politicians in tough re-election fights, that line is increasingly hazy. Hazy ??? Let me clear it up ... ALL INCUMBENT SCREW UPS. KISS YOUR AZZ GOOD BYE.
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