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During the George Floyd riots, Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey abandoned the city's third precinct,

surrendering it to rioters who then set fire to it.

The mayor defends abandoning the third precinct.

If we were to continue to attempt to hold the third precinct,

very likely there would have been hand-to-hand combat, likely serious injury, and maybe death.

After the George Floyd riots, Minneapolis mayor Jacob Frey was in the spotlight to defund the police.

Majority of Minneapolis's city council is pledging to defund or dismantle the police department following the death of George Floyd.

However, the city's mayor,

Jacob Fry, opposes that.

Protesters chanted go home, Jacob over the weekend after he said he does not support

dismantling the department. You campaigned on reform.

That's part of how you got elected.

You have reformed the body cam policy.

You have banned warrior training.

But we still have the George Floyd incident.

Is reform enough? I don't want to comment on precisely what the council meant by disbanding or ending the police force.

I think there's varying opinions.

But what I'm saying is, look, I'm not for abolishing, but deep structural reform, absolutely,

we have to make it happen.

To reform the police, they decided to replace SWAT teams with social workers.

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