Minnesota Supreme Court rules Minneapolis voters may decide on abolishing police department

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The ruling comes more than a year after George Floyd’s death in Minneapolis while in police custody

The Minnesota Supreme Court ruled that voters in Minneapolis may decide on whether or not to abolish the police department in the upcoming municipal elections. 

“We’re incredibly thrilled that the people of Minneapolis have their democracy honored,” JaNaรฉ Bates, a spokeswoman for Yes 4 Minneapolis, which wrote the proposal, told the Star Tribune. “The Supreme Court recognized that we were on the right side of the law, we were on the right side of democracy, and we’re going to be [on] the right side of history as we move forward.”

If passed, the measure would do away with the Minneapolis charter requirement to have a police department with a minimum level of staffing. Minneapolis would instead replace the police department with a public safety department “that employs a comprehensive public health approach.”

“A case with this many motions, and this many ups and downs usually takes 12 months. There’s little time in the course of this to feel exhilaration when we won or disappointment when we lost, because there was always more to do,” said Terrance W. Moore, an attorney for Yes 4 Minneapolis. “We felt it was important to be resilient and follow the course of the law and the course of the process and, ugly as it was, the process worked.”

The stateโ€™s Supreme Court overturned a lower courtโ€™s ruling that rejected ballot language for not sufficiently describing the measure’s effects. 

The language “is unreasonable and misleading,” Hennepin County District Judge Jamie Anderson wrote in the order last week. 

“The court finds that the current ballot language is vague, ambiguous and incapable of implementation, and is insufficient to identify the amendment clearly,” she continued.

The Supreme Courtโ€™s ruling came just before the start of early voting for Minneapolis municipal elections at 8 a.m. Friday. Election day for the city will be held on Nov. 2.ย 

Byย Emma Colton

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