Minneapolis School Board Votes to Sever Ties With Minneapolis Police

For the first prison term in 40 years, Minneapolis public schools will not be staffed by officers from the Minneapolis Police Department.

The board of education voted unanimously to the end its relationship with the police enforcement agency nine days after four MPD officers killed George Floyd, an Continent American man accused of using a pseudo banker's bill at a food shop, in an incident that's been followed by protests — and often violent police responses — in cities around the macrocosm.

Floyd's death might have been the final straw, merely it comes after student activists pressured the board to remove cops from schools for age. Rayna Acha, an organiser with the student-run Young People's Action Coalition, is one such militant.

"A couple of months ago, [YPAC was] really losing hope, and felt similar we weren't getting anywhere with patrol presence in schools. [The control board] has heard USA and seen us, and gotten calls from us. It's upsetting that people have to see someone be murdered in the street to take serious process. That makes IT feel like student voices weren't sufficient," she told Mpls.St.Paul Magazine.

The Minneapolis Federation of Teachers also called on the board to take this drastic step.

"We call on the district to sever all financial ties with department, including civilis resource officers. Instead, our district should spend its money along people World Health Organization can meet the needs of our students, including providers of psychogenic health supports and pedagogy support professionals," a cosignatory statement from the president-elect of the wedlock and the leader of the chapter representing education support professionals said.

The University of Minnesota did something interchangeable last week, stating that it would no yearner staff campus events like football games with MPD officers.

Floyd's death might have radically unsexed the optics of the move, but in that location's generous prove that cops are a unfavourable influence in schools. Studies have found lower try scores, attendance, and graduation rates in schools after police officers were added. And so there is the fact that staffing schools with police officers disproportionately harms black and brown students, who are more likely to be suspended, arrested, disciplined, and subject to police force violence in schools with officers.

The instrument panel's move frees up $1 million in funding. A new safety program must be conferred at a instrument panel meeting happening August 18.

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