Minneapolis City Council members are speaking up in support of radical changes in their city's police department. Council member Jeremiah Ellison promised that the council would "dismantle" the department. 7:40The move to defund or abolish the Minneapolis department is far from assured, with the civil rights investigation likely to unfold over the next several months. Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey leaves a demonstration calling for the police department to be defunded on Saturday in Minneapolis. At another march Saturday during which leaders called for defunding the department, Verbena Dempster said she supported the idea.

Source: CBC News June 07, 2020 23:23 UTC