Steve well another Steve, well another controversial move in Minneapolis the City council. There stripped eight dollars million from the police budget, despite record crime rates, since the death of George Floyd, our next guest knows all too well the effects the increase in violence has had on that community. After her salon was burned down during the riots in May, the owner of floras hair designs, Flora Wester Brooks joins us now from the twin cities floor remarks good morning to you good Morning, Steve. We have been talking to you once a month over the last six months. Who do you think the police who everyone needs, have eight dollars million taken from their budget? That wouldnt seem that that would be a good idea when you have got crime going through the roof which you do. Oh gosh, thats terrible. I dont think they should cut that eight million from the department. No, we need police,

we need them Steve. Of course you do when you look at the crime rates sings last year. Arson- and you know this all too well, because you were burned out. Arson is up. Seventy seven percent assaults up twenty four percent homicidides. Seventy eight percent and robberies up forty eight percent carjackings are up three hundred and thirty one percent in Minneapolis over the last year. Flora. Why is that? Is that? Because there are carjackers who just think either there arent enough police to catch me or if I get caught im going to get a slap on the wrist. I will be back on the street in two minutes. Probably sayings that not enough to catch me catch me. If you can Steve yeah, do the people in your community feel safe? Do you feel less safe than you did before this all started? I do

I feel less safe. A lot of my friends that I talk to. They are not feeling safe right now, cutting the budget down to eight million. They are not with that either. Neither am, I would need protection here, especially in my community, where I live Steve yeah. We talked to you a few weeks ago because the City Council there, because so many police officers are on leave right now with PTSD, because you know they are suffering in a variety of ailments, so many police are out the county. Rather, the city actually is peaking. Half a million dollars to come in and HEPA Control did that help at all. No, it has not. No carjacking is still going on. Murder rates are still going up higher; no, it has not

ever since the killing of George Floyd. I know there has been interest in defunding the police, and we heard that in the run up to the election, how many people im going to ask you to be an amateur statistician, how many people, what percentage of people in Minneapolis support the idea of defunding the police? I really cant tell you because, like I said everyone that I talk to, they are afraid right now. You know because we dont have the protection, so I couldnt, really, you know, give you a number on that at all. No, I know for me, I am afraid yes, Steve yeah, and you know we talked to you shortly after you were burned out and all the politicians showed up and they said flora we are going to take care of you. Dont worry. We are going to help you out thats what they said when the tv cameras were there, the tv cameras are long gone, nobody has helped you have they. No, no.

No politicians here have given me anything no Steve. I know that a go fund me page has been started and we have a lot of kind viewers if you would like to help with her go fund me go to our website, foxandfriends dot com, and we will link to yours. Good luck to you floor remarks and we hope you have a merry Christmas out there. Thank you same to you.