Four years ago this week, a movement to defund and abolish the Minneapolis Police Department ignited across the city and the world.
George Floyd, a 46-year-old Black man and St. Louis Park resident, was killed by a Minneapolis police officer in the Powderhorn neighborhood of Minneapolis.
In those four years since his murder, everything — and nothing — has changed.
The Minneapolis Police Department was not defunded. The city is still struggling to come to terms with what safety and accountability look like in the aftermath.
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A new book traces how Minneapolis arrived at the brink of police abolition, and why true reform is so hard to come by.
It’s called “The Minneapolis Reckoning: Race, Violence and the Politics of Policing in America.”
Wednesday at 9 a.m., MPR News host Angela Davis talks with the book’s author, sociologist Michelle Phelps.
And we want to hear from you, too.
What do you remember about May 2020 and the civil unrest that followed? What are your reflections on the four years since? Are you satisfied with what has changed and what has not?
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