Allegedly, a Minneapolis man called 911 to report the shooting. The police told him that he should call the mayor and ask for more police funding.
The man, Mike Rhodes, said that at about 3 pm local time on May 12, he heard two men shooting outside his house in northern Minneapolis. He fell to the ground and urged his 15-year-old son upstairs to do the same.
Rod then called 911. When the police arrived, the gunman had already left. But when the two gunmen came back through his block at around 7pm, Rod called the police again. The police never showed up.
Afterwards, they entered Rhode’s yard and began searching on the lawn, as if looking for bullet shells. So Rhodes called 911 three times, about 15 minutes apart. The 911 dispatcher told him that there were not enough police to respond. Minnesota Reformers Report.
Later, he made three calls to the police station.
“(The person answering the phone) told me that if I want the police to respond more quickly to the communities near me, then I need to call the mayor’s office and ask for more money to fund them,” Rod told Minnesota Reform By.
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Rhodes said he has filed a complaint with the department’s internal affairs office. The department responded to his complaint three months later. The response told him that after conducting an “appropriate investigation,” it chose not to proceed with his complaint.
Rhodes also said he contacted the mayor of Minneapolis Jacob Frey And his district council member Phillipe Cunningham (Phillipe Cunningham).
Cunningham said the police had been showing up at the homes of his voters and told them that he had reduced the number of police officers, resulting in slower response times.
Even before May 25, 2020, the Minneapolis Police Department was criticized for improper handling of criminal cases. George FreudFreud was an unarmed black man who was kneeled on his neck by a white police officer for nearly 9 minutes. Freud’s death triggered a nationwide protest against racial justice and called for “abolition of funding for the police.”
A municipal voting measure to replace the police with a “public health-oriented” Ministry of Public Security Failed last week. Approximately 56% of voters voted against the measure.
In December last year, the Minneapolis City Council voted to use $8 million in police funds for community mental health and violence prevention resources. The proposal allocates US$179 million to the police and calls on the police to maintain the current level of staffing.
However, since 2020, about 300 police officers have left, resulting in a shortage of manpower in some police districts. Star TribuneOutput.
Since the budget cut in December 2020, city council members who voted for the measure accused the police of not responding to calls from their area and tried to punish them for budget cuts.
The police from the Municipal Public Security Bureau told Star Tribune They feel overworked, not taken seriously, and are closely watched by the public and city officials. They also stated that they felt that the commander lacked guidance on how to move forward in the current cultural environment.
Frey promised to announce the committee in the coming weeks and will make recommendations on police and public safety. The mayor will also propose a budget of nearly $192 million for the city police in the coming year. This amount is almost equal to the police budget before Freud was murdered.
