Palmisano exposes Council plan to defund MPD Mounted Police using the budget process: from the December 6, 2024 Budget Committee meeting
Given the that a Socialist coalition controls the City Council, this is the latest action this year that aligns with their ideology. From the DSA manifesto: “Defund the police by rejecting any expansion to police budgets or scope of enforcement while cutting budgets annually towards zero” Source: https://www.dsausa.org/dsa-political-platform-from-2021-convention/#abolition-carceral
It is not just the MPD they do not like. In cities all across the country they are working on efforts to ” abolish.” the police. In order to be endorsed by the DSA, even WHILE still being DFL endorsed?! they have to sign pledges which agree with these positions.
Excerpt from something I put on Next Door last Fall. “These DSA candidates get on City Councils for a few reasons and ” starving the beast,” meaning law enforcement, is one of the big reasons. They are doing this SAME thing in many major cities all over the country. It is just EASIER in Mpls because of all that the city has been through, so George Floyd is THAT opportunity for them, and will keep being used, for years, as long as it is working.
https://socialistforum.dsausa.org/issues/2023-dsa-national-convention-discussion/socialists-dont-vote-for-cop-budgets/
Excerpt from the link, which is a policy statement/ directive put out by the DSA folks…in 2023.
“Our DSA platform classifies the police as a white supremacist organization” that “disorganize[s] working class communities through the routine application of violence, intimidation, and coercion.” “We have a National Abolition Working Group; in NYC, the chapter’s #DefundNYPD campaign mobilized community members and over 40 city council candidates in support of their program;..”