Jacob Frey: “my own shortcomings and I know there needs to be a deep-seated structural approach in terms of how the department operates. The systemically racist system needs to be revamped” Protesters: “we know” Jacob Frey: “the police union needs to be put in its place” Protesters: “we know” Jacob Frey: “we need to make sure that everything from the union contract to the way the arbitration functions…” Protesters: *muffled disagreement* then start chanting “yes or no” Organizer: “Jacob Frey we have a yes or no question for you, yes or no do you commit to defunding the Minneapolis police department” Jacob Frey: *inaudible* Organizer: “what did i say? we don’t want no more police. we don’t want people with guns totting around in our community shooting us down…” Protesters: *erupt in cheers for the organizer* Organizer: “…that was a yes or a no. yes or a no. Will you defund the Minneapolis police department” Organizer: “alright be quiet ya’ll. it’s important that we actually hear this. it’s important that we hear this cos if ya’ll don’t know he’s up for re-election next year” Protesters: *cheer* Organizer: “if yall don’t know he’s up for re-election next year. And if he says no, guess what the fuck we gonna do next year” Jacob Frey: “I do not support the full abolition of the police” Organizer: “alright get the fuck out of here. GO GO GO” Protesters: *erupt in a chant* “GO HOME JACOB GO HOME. GO HOME JACOB GO HOME” Protesters: “SHAME SHAME SHAME”
An excerpt from the ^ above article that you shouldn’t miss:
Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey said last night that he opposed disbanding the police department at a protest organized and led by Black Visions Collective against police violence in the city. That answer earned him a thundering chorus of boos and chants of “Shame!” and “Go home, Jacob, go home!” The New York Times called the scene a “humiliation on a scale almost unimaginable outside of cinema or nightmare.”
If this whole pandemic has revealed one thing, it’s that an embarrassing amount of people have never learned that sometimes it’s not about you.
I’m also starting to think people don’t realize how many people are walking around out there who seem “”“healthy”“” but have underlying conditions that could straight kill them if they got covid. People with asthma, diabetics, people who HAVE to take immunosuppressants to BE healthy…how many of them have been dismissed with “you’re young, you work out, you won’t die” because people DO NOT REALIZE they have a medical condition?
