Jay Ettinger, Minneapolis resident and business owner, reacts to the decision on ‘Fox & Friends.’
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Plus zero percent interest for twenty four months on all smart beds only for a limited time,
a chance for
Steve after promising to
dismantle their police
department. The Minneapolis City
Council now approving an extra
six dollars and forty cents million to recruit more
police officers,
residents citing longer response
time and an increase in violent
crime and concerns after city
leaders pledged to reimagine
public safety following George
Floyds death last year,
Minneapolis resident and
business owner Jay ET gear joins
us now from Minneapolis
Jay Good Morning to you. How are
im fine? How are you
Steve that intro didnt explain
whats going on
after George Floyd unrest, the
Town Council in Minneapolis said
you know what
the police are doing, a bad job.
We have to reimagine it.
We have to defund the police.
That became a movement all
across the country.
There were people who said
taking money from the police
does not make sense and fast
forward to today, and now your
town Council is saying, you know
what
we need more police.
What happened
if you gave this script to a
Hollywood director whats
happened to our city the last
nine months and to be frank, the
last three years.
They would laugh at the premise,
its so absurd.
The we had nine City council
members stand on a teenage with
big letters in front of the
stage saying calling for defund
the police. If you were defund,
the council, members of the thirteen
Preble get are nine different
answers, whether a that means
there is no consistency or
cohesiveness in their group and
their attempts what they are
trying to do
Steve. Ultimately, you know if
you were to poll the people in
Minneapolis who would think
okay. This is a good idea.
Lets defund the police.
What would that public opinion
poll? Look like
you know, I think in
Minneapolis. Probably twenty to twenty five percent
might support that idea as crazy
as it sounds.
I think if you took one step
outside of Minneapolis, I think
ninety five percent to ninety nine percent think its absurd.
The terminology was dangerous.
You know when George Floyd died
on May 25th, our obviously
our community directly was
greatly impacted, as well as the
whole country,
but when that happened- and I
woke up on May 26th and watched
the video I was heart, broken and
angry and disgusted-
I had all sorts of emotions,
but one of the things that imcan
a out of that a day or two later
after I was able to kind of
digest what happened was. I saw
an opportunity for us to all
come together.
It didnt matter whether you
were white or black republican
or democrat old or young.
Everybody was heart, broken by
what they saw and upset by what
they saw.
The difference is I cant tell
you whats in our city city, coun
heart,
they saw saw a whole different
opportunity.
They saw an opportunity to take
down a system.
They have a lot of blood on
their hands because of it.
We have over five hundred and fifty people shot in
our city. In twenty twenty
we had over. Eighty murders can and
the far majority of those
victims were people of color,
and so I dont know exactly who
they think they are helping,
because this defund, the police
movement, has hurt the black
community in our city more than
any other,
and the black leadership in our
city is not being heard. Our
faith leaders our he educators,
our coaches, are not not being he
by the city. Council,
Steve. You know the pit bull
that the city is in now where
they are going. We need to come
with six million more dollars
to hire more police has
completely inflicted on the city
of Minneapolis by the City of
Minneapolis Council.
You say come November its time
to get rid as many as possible.
This is the most important
election in this citys history.
If we get it right, we could
turn this around really quickly.
We are three years removed from
having the super bowl here,
two years removed from having a
final four.
What this city looks like today,
compared to two and three years
ago, is startling.
This election we have got to get
it right.
We have to vote for the greater
good
we have to vote for whats best
for everybody in our community
and this city council. Everything
is falling on deaf ears with
this city Council,
Steve Jay, Ettinger, Minneapolis,
business owner and resident.
Transcript generated on 2021-03-09.