MINNEAPOLIS (JTA) – Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey was booed out of a protest rally after he said he would not defund the city’s police force.
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In videos widely shared on social media over the weekend, the Jewish mayor was asked directly at a protest in the city on Saturday whether he would commit to defunding the department. After Frey replied that he did not support “the full abolition” of the force, protesters shouted “shame” and “Jacob, go home” as Frey retreated from the demonstration.
A 38-year-old lawyer elected in 2018, Frey has found himself a target of widespread protests sparked by the killing of George Floyd by four of the city’s police officers on May 25. Protesters gathered Saturday outside the mayor’s home. It was there that one speaker pressed him to say whether he would defund the police and threatened him with removal from office if he answered no.
“He’s up for reelection next year, and if he says no guess what the f**k we are going to do next year,” she said.
Frey told The New York Times on Sunday that he stayed at the protest for another 45 minutes during which he took questions from reporters.
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“Go home Jacob! Go home!”
Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey was booed out of a protest after he said he did not support abolishing the police department. https://abcn.ws/2XCv4uJ
Calls for defunding police departments have been a recurring feature of protests that have swept the nation in the days since Floyd’s death. Last week, the Jewish mayor of Los Angeles, Eric Garcetti, said he would cut up to $150 million from a planned increase to his city’s police budget, according to the Times.
In 2019, President Donald Trump attacked Frey after the mayor said his city would not cover the costs of Trump’s security for a rally there.
Poor WHITE liberal (Jew?). He thought that because he has a “D” before his name, and he hangs with the blacks, the dregs would just love him. He’s getting a good education now, in the school of hard knocks, that it’s all about skin color. All those sick retarded WHITE losers that were seen bowing down to blacks and apologizing for their WHITE priviliged guilt, will all get it in the end from the very blacks they were apologizing to. There is a reason that Nanci Pelosi lives in an all WHITE gated community that has a strict, no blacks allowed policy.
I’m happy he wasn’t wishy washy on this I think if he stays the course he will be able to win. Hopefully his opponent will be so far to the extreme that Mr. Frey will win.
Why does JTA have to state “the Jewish Mayor”? Do they refer to Trump was “the Protestant President”, or to Biden as “the Catholic candidate”?
I give Mayor Frey a lot of credit for having the guts to appear before a hostile crowd, and to take a position, which the crowd didn’t want to hear (not abolishing or defunding the police).
excellent comment