Hi, this is Corinne in my she-shed in Raleigh where I just finished sewing the

1,334th face mask made by our church for the triangle community while listening to the

NPR Politics Podcast. This show was recorded at 206 PM on Thursday, June 11th.

Things may have changed since then, but I'll still be sewing face masks while listening to NPR.

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Or hey there, it's the NPR Politics Podcast. I'm Usma Khaled. I'm covering the presidential campaign.

And I'm Carrie Johnson. I cover the Justice Department.

We have spent a lot of this week talking about police reform at the federal level,

but in Minneapolis, where George Floyd was killed by local police officers,

the City Council has already begun making changes. It has pledged to dismantle the

city's police department entirely. Adrian Flaredo has been in Minneapolis covering the story for NPR,

and he's joining us on the pod now to talk about exactly what that means. Hey, Adrian.

Hi, Osma. Hi, Carrie. Hey. So Adrian, we're hearing a lot about ideas at the federal level.

You know, some of them conflicting about how to ensure that police don't use a disproportionate

amount of force, especially with black and brown people. And Congress is pledging to reform

policing. You know, activists have been talking about defunding police departments. But talk to

us about what's happened there in Minneapolis, where the City Council has said that they want

to dismantle police. What does that mean? On Sunday, nine members of the City Council showed up

at a park at a rally that black activists had organized and basically announced that they wanted

to begin the process of dismantling and defunding and disbanding the police and said that they were

going to start doing that in the coming weeks and months through a series of policy decisions.

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