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.