Now only one thousand nine hundred and ninety nine dollars, plus zero percent interest for twenty four months, only for a limited time. We are here because Minneapolis and in cities across the United States, it is clear that our system of policing is not keeping our communities safe, were going to bring this policing system from the upside down. Ask were all going to stand in the sunlight and were going to build this community together, brick by brick, one by one. This council is going to dismantle this police department, cheers and applause, Steve Well, Minneapolis City Council members have spent the last year vowing to defund the police, and today voters there will decide if the their officers should be replaced, replace the police department with a department of public safety, but with violent crime rising in Minneapolis. Is this really the smart option joining us to weigh in republican candidate for Congress, Cicely Davis

and the pastor at New Salem Missionary Baptist Church in Minneapolis, Reverend Jerry Mcafee Good Morning to both of you good morning? Steve Reverend? Let me start with you: crime is rising there. Is this the time to replace the police department with a department of public safetiesome? Absolutely not since George or Floyd weve had over one hundred and forty people killed over eight hundred people shot and the majority of African Americans dont want this? These are progressives thats, moving on their own agenda that I call a white supremacist agenda to define our reality then force us to live under their definition. While they have the opportunity the to do some things that would reduce crime theyre still not doing it theyve, given us something that has no plan at all, and this is not good for the city and its certainly not good. For the my people, Steve Cicely, you know when somebody picks up a phone when there is a crime in progress, you want the police to show up. I dont know exactly whos going

to show up with a department of public safety that is correct and is so what youre asking what is being asked. Minneapolis residents are being asked to vote on a public safety amendment today when they know theres, absolutely nothing in it. Besides a gutted police force, the layers of bureaucratic red tape and a panel of unqualified, woke imagineeers, who are left to protect our states, most diverse city, that cannot happen. We absolutely have to have police show, is up thats, whos, qualified and thats whos trained to protect the people of Minneapolis, Steve Reverend. You know I get where the defund police started last year after George Floyd, but fast forward a year. What do you thinks going to happen with the people of Minneapolis? What are they going to vote for in? Well, my prayer is again that the majority would vote. No, because some of the things that these groups are talking about were already doing.

One were already working on reform and these people have never joined the table for reform with chief Rondo, not one time. We already have healing and treatment centers out of Zion Baptist Church with Charlie Adams in the fourth precinct access us all the time. So the things they say they want to do were already doing and theyre not supporting us at all, Steve yeah and Cicely a question for you. If the people in your town vote no, that means they keep the police department, but will you get more money for more police officers? We will not, and so again like. I said this is an unknown, unqualified panel of City Council members. We are electing today a new mayor, a new city council, which is unknown. They will absolutely push forward with their radical agenda of eliminating the police force here in Minneapolis

and with the death toll. What were looking at is the russian roulette. This is nothing more than a game of russian roulette with Minneapolis lives at stake Steve. We should know by this time tomorrow.