Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey came out of his home Saturday to address hundreds of protestors who had stopped on his street to rally in support of the idea of defunding the police department. It didn’t go well.
“I’ve been coming to grips with my own brokenness in this situation, my own failures, my own shortcomings, and I know there needs to be deep-seated structural reforms in terms of how the department operates,” he said, according to a video circulated on Twitter.
A protest leader asked him whether he would commit to defunding the police department, pressing him to answer “yes” or “no.” He said he didn’t support abolishing the police.
The leader then told him to leave, using an expletive, and he had to walk through the crowd as many booed and chanted “Go home, Jacob, go home,” and “Shame! Shame! Shame!” as shown in a second video from the same scene.
“Mayor Frey is unwavering in his commitment to working with [Police Chief Medaria] Arradondo toward deep structural reforms and uprooting systemic racism. He does not support abolishing the police department,” a spokesman for the mayor said.
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