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Ilhan Omar calls for disbanding of Minneapolis police department

by Jordyn Pair · Jun 5th, 2020 4:15 pm
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Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) called on Friday for the Minneapolis police department to be disbanded.

Omar tagged the account of Minneapolis City Council member Steve Fletcher, who has pushed the City Council to support dissolving the city's police department. The council this week began openly calling for the city to disband its police.

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