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LAS ESCUELAS PÚBLICAS DE MINNEAPOLIS CANCELAN SU CONTRATATO CON EL DEPARTAMENTO DE POLÍCIA

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LAS ESCUELAS PÚBLICAS DE MINNEAPOLIS CANCELAN SU CONTRATATO CON EL DEPARTAMENTO DE POLÍCIA

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En EEUU es habitual que los centros educativos cuenten con personal de seguridad. En Minneapolis y gracias a la presión de la comunidad de color, la policía ya no estará presente en las escuelas e institutos. Queda por determinar si contratarán otro personal de seguridad o si utilizaran los recursos para dotar a los centros de más personal educativo como reclaman numerosas organizaciones.

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Minneapolis Public Schools has severed its decadeslong relationship with the city's police department in response to the death of George Floyd in police custody.

The school board voted unanimously Tuesday to terminate the MPD's contract to provide school resource officers. The district will cease further negotiations with the department and Superintendent Ed Graff must come up with a new plan for school safety by the board's Aug. 18 meeting.

"I value people and education and life," school board chairwoman Kim Ellison said in an interview. "Now I'm convinced, based on the actions of the Minneapolis Police Department, that we don't have the same values."

"I firmly believe that it is completely unnatural to have police in schools," school board member Kimberly Caprini said during the meeting.

In a statement, MPD Deputy Chief Erick Fors said they will continue to work with MPS on security and safety issues.

"The relationships that were built were impactful not only for the students and staff, but for the officers who had a calling to work with our youth through mentorship and engagement."

The Minneapolis and St. Paul school districts have long faced criticism over the use of school resource officers, with both seeking to transform the role to be more of a mentor than an enforcer. In 2018-2019, a Minneapolis Public Schools survey gave mostly positive marks to the officers, but the data also showed that school cops had more interactions with black students than their peers.

The state's third-largest school district has contracted with Minneapolis police since 1967, a district spokeswoman said, except from 2004-2009, when it worked with park police. Under the current contract, the district was paying Minneapolis police $1.1 million annually for its services.

Earlier Tuesday, a few hundred people - including Democratic U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar - gathered outside the district's headquarters to voice support for the move.

"Police brutality doesn't just happen in the streets here in Minneapolis. It happens in our schools," Omar said. "Enough is enough."

A group of North High School students spoke against the removal of school resource officers. Their school resource officer, who is also their football coach, is "like a father," they said.

"With SROs being gone, nobody's going to feel safe at school," one of the students said. Board member KerryJo Felder offered an amendment during Tuesday's meeting to give North and Henry high schools the option to keep their officers. It failed.

Ellison noted that police response time will be slower without school resource officers if an incident occurs. But, she said, this is a matter of values.

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Minneapolis Public Schools terminates contract with Police Department over George Floyd's death

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Minneapolis Public Schools has severed its decadeslong relationship with the city's police department in response to the death of George Floyd in police custody. The school board voted unanimously Tuesday to terminate the MPD's contract to provide school resource officers.

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Los conductores de autobuses de Minneapolis se niegan a transportar a la cárcel a los manifestantes de George Floyd.

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Los conductores de autobuses de Minneapolis se niegan a transportar a la cárcel a los manifestantes de George Floyd.

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Los trabajadores organizados de toda la ciudad se unen en contra la violencia policial tras la muerte de Floyd. En solidaridad con los manifestantes, el sindicato de conductores de autobús en Minneapolis firmaron una petición y se negaron a transportar a los policías y a los manifestantes arrestados a la cárcel.

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The murder of George Floyd at the hands of the Minneapolis police has sparked several days of protests, including the burning of a police precinct on Thursday night.

In solidarity with protestors, union bus drivers in Minneapolis signed a petition and refused to transport police officers and arrested protestors to jail on Thursday, PayDay Report first reported and independently confirmed by Motherboard. At one bus garage in downtown Minneapolis on Thursday evening, some workers refused to drive buses that were being dispatched to transport police officers.

"We are willing to do what we can to ensure our labor is not used to help the Minneapolis Police Department shut down calls for justice," the petition reads. "For example, I am a bus driver with ATU 1005, and I urged people to call MetroTransit and the Governor the second I heard our buses and members were being organized to make mass arrests hours before the protests escalated."

On Thursday, the city of Minneapolis shut down its light rail and bus services out of concern for employee and rider safety.

More than 400 union workers, including Minneapolis postal workers, nurses, teachers, and hotel workers have signed the petition posted on the Facebook group Union Members for #JusticeForGeorgeFloyd pledging not to aid the policing of the protests with their labor, according to Adam Birch, a Minneapolis bus driver who wrote the petition.

"I was on my route on Wednesday evening and there was a message that came over transit control asking for a bus to transport police officers," Birch told Motherboard. "I interpreted this as Minneapolis police department preparing for mass arrests so when I had a moment on a layover, I created a post on Facebook saying that I'm a metro transit bus driver, and I don't feel comfortable assisting the Minneapolis police department to make arrests. It got a lot of reaction, which was surprising so I created a petition."

Since the release of a video earlier this week showing an officer Derek Chauvin kneeling on Floyd's neck until he died, unions and workers in Minneapolis, a city with a strong organized labor movement, have condemned the killing. Among them, Minneapolis's teacher union and the Awood Center, which organizes Amazon warehouse workers in the area, have also issued statements condemning the killing as an act of racism.

"If we feel if something is unjust, then workers should have the right not to support the situation or provide their services," Ryan Timlin, president of Amalgamated Transit Union Local 1005, which represents the bus drivers and 2,500 public transportation workers in the Twin Cities, told Motherboard. "This was not a strike."

Many members of Amalgamated Transit Union Local 1005, which represents 2,500 public transportation workers in the Twin Cities, live in south Minneapolis, where Floyd lived and was killed and where recent protests have taken place.

"ATU members live with similar fears on a daily basis. ATU members face racism daily. Our members live in and work in neighborhoods where actions like this happen, and where this took place, now watched in horror across the globe," a press statement from the Amalgamated Transit Union Local 1005, said.

"In ATU, we have a saying: 'NOT ONE MORE' when dealing with driver assaults in some cases have led to members being murdered while doing their job," the union said. "We say 'NOT ONE MORE' execution of a black life by the hands of the police. NOT ONE MORE! JUSTICE FOR GEORGE FLOYD."

The Minneapolis police department, which has a history of misconduct allegations and racist violence, is represented itself by a powerful union. The Minneapolis Police Union has continued to offer "warrior-style training" to any officers that want it, despite the city's mayor putting a ban on the style of training last year, which was linked to the shooting of Philando Castile in 2016.

When the police shot and killed 32-year-old Castile in Minnesota, the local teacher's union took action to protest the death of Castile, who was a nutrition services supervisor, and 14-year member of the Teamsters Local 320, which also represents law enforcement officials in the Twin Cities.

Birch says the Facebook group Union Members for #JusticeForGeorgeFloyd is organizing a coalition of union members to attend a protest in Minneapolis on Saturday.

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Minneapolis Bus Drivers Refuse to Transport George Floyd Protesters to Jail

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The murder of George Floyd at the hands of the Minneapolis police has sparked several days of protests, including the burning of a police precinct on Thursday night. In solidarity with protestors, union bus drivers in Minneapolis signed a petition and refused to transport police officers and arrested protestors to jail on Thursday, PayDay Report first reported and independently confirmed by Motherboard.

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Alrededor de unas 200 personas desplazadas y sin hogar en South Minneapolis ocupan un hotel para refugiarse y se auto organizan para honrar la memoria de George Floyd, quien en vida trabajó en el albergue para personas sin hogar más grande de la ciudad.

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At 8pm on Friday, May 29 2020, just blocks from the epicenter of the uprising fighting for justice for George Floyd in the streets of south Minneapolis, armored vehicles and hundreds of national guard advanced on Hiawatha Avenue.

The curfew was in effect and the state offered no options in Minneapolis for an unsheltered couple camped outside. The shelters were full, and the hotels promised to the large encampment left them and many others behind.

They finally found refuge in a hotel a few blocks away. Throughout the night, people came in with harrowing stories of terror from police and other white supremacists. The National Guard shot rubber bullets at our community members who stood outside to protect the building. So much of our beloved Lake Street burned around us.

The next morning, we learned that the hotel owners planned to evacuate, but so much of the community was still in need of shelter. With the owner's gracious support, people stepped forward and created a mutual aid community care system. In less than 24 hours, we housed nearly 200 people and are now organizing meals, first aid and harm reduction services, security teams, and housekeeping to make a home for people in need during the worst pandemic in recent history.
Together, we have turned this hotel into a Sanctuary and resource hub for our neighborhood.
There is no going back to how things were - this isn't a hotel anymore, this is a community resource made possible by George Floyd. George Floyd was a shelter worker. He worked at the largest homeless shelter in Minneapolis. He supported and advocated for people experiencing homelessness while he was alive, and this Sanctuary will be a part of his legacy.

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At 8pm on Friday, May 29 2020, just blocks from the epicenter of the uprising fighting for justice for George Floyd in the streets of south Minneapolis, armored vehicles and hundreds of national guard advanced on Hiawatha Avenue. The curfew was in effect and the state offered no options in Minneapolis for an unsheltered couple camped outside.

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Barrios del sur de Minneapolis se organizan entre los disturbios, la pandemia y la desaparición de la policía para proteger a su comunidad y seguir luchando contra la brutalidad policial.

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Barrios del sur de Minneapolis se organizan entre los disturbios, la pandemia y la desaparición de la policía para proteger a su comunidad y seguir luchando contra la brutalidad policial.

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“En el lugar en el que se conmemora de George Floyd en la calle 38 y la avenida Chicago, una comunidad está creciendo sin la necesidad de la policía. Donaciones y voluntarios de todas partes han estado llegando mientras la comunidad se cuida a sí misma, creando estaciones de ayuda mutua para los necesitados durante esta época de pandemia y una época en la que las tiendas del Southside siguen cerradas o quemadas.”

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No Police For 8 Days, George Floyd Vigil Site Thrives

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Puesto de vigilancia  organizado por la juventud local somalí en el barrio de Cedar-Riverside

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Puesto de vigilancia  organizado por la juventud local somalí en el barrio de Cedar-Riverside

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En el vecindario de West Bank, cerca del centro de Minneapolis, residentes locales, propietarixs de negocios y los trabajadorxs, junto con voluntarixs externos, organizaron su propia protección del vecindario ante la amenaza de supremacistas blancos.

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In the days following the alleged murder of George Floyd by Minneapolis Police Officer Derek Chauvin, cases of arson spread throughout the Twin Cities. The following weekend, concerned residents coordinated block watch and neighborhood patrol efforts to deter crime, boarding-up windows and doors along busy thoroughfares and preparing their own means of fire suppression.

In the West Bank neighborhood near downtown Minneapolis, local residents, business owners and workers, alongside outside volunteers, organized their own neighborhood protection. They stood watch overnight, watching for suspicious activity, alerting each other via an instant messaging thread of pedestrians breaking curfew or vehicles with no license plates.

Among the West Bank block watchers, a large contingent of Somali youth created their own checkpoints on 4th Street and 6th Street along Cedar Avenue. KFAI's Ryan Dawes spoke with three of these volunteers about their patrol efforts and how they identify with the Black Lives Matter movement. Listen here:

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Makeshift Checkpoint, Block Watch Organized by Local Somali Youth

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In the days following the alleged murder of George Floyd by Minneapolis Police Officer Derek Chauvin, cases of arson spread throughout the Twin Cities. The following weekend, concerned residents coordinated block watch and neighborhood patrol efforts to deter crime, boarding-up windows and doors along busy thoroughfares and preparing their own means of fire suppression.

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Activista alarma de la actuación policial en la estación de primeros auxilios en la que voluntarios atendían a heridos por las protestas

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Activista alarma de la actuación policial en la estación de primeros auxilios en la que voluntarios atendían a heridos por las protestas

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“Esta noche el Departamento de Policía de Minneapolis abrió fuego contra nuestra estación de primeros auxilios sin tener en cuenta a los heridos que teníamos dentro.Estábamos tratando a los manifestantes 100% pacíficos adultos y adolescentes que habían llegado con heridas de bala de goma, caídas, raspaduras y cortes, y exposición a gas lacrimógeno cuando entraron y comenzaron a dispararnos.

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Tonight the Minneapolis Police Department 
Opened fire on our first aid station with no regard for the wounded people we had inside.

We were treating the 100% PEACEFUL protestors adults and teens...

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En este post, se muestra la otra cara de la moneda de las protestas, que siempre estuvo ahí pero que no se visibiliza en los medios de comunicación masivos. En Minneapolis se está demostrando que es posible organizarse y protegerse en comunidad, sin gobierno y sin policía ¿Tienen miedo de que nos demos cuenta de que no los necesitamos?

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Esta autogestión en el momento de crisis actual no viene de la nada,  sino que se nutre del amplio tejido activista de Minneapolis. Si bien muchas personas se han implicado en los colectivos autogestionados en las últimas semanas, es sin duda el aprendizaje comunitario de décadas el que ha permitido una respuesta social coordinada y fuerte. Minneapolis es una ciudad de contrastes, con altos niveles de pobreza y racismo, pero también con redes sociales, culturales y políticas muy establecidas, que ya dieron lugar al nacimiento del American Indian Movement en 1968 y que hoy nos están demostrando su importancia.

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Las noticias y las redes sociales se llenan de imágenes de disturbios, ataques policiales o destrozos en la ciudad de Minneapolis. Mientras tanto, la comunidad se autogestiona para multitud de tareas, como proteger los pequeños comercios, atender a los numerosos heridos por las cargas policiales, detectar instigadores infiltrados, cobijar a las personas cuyos hogares no son seguros o a las personas sin hogar, recolectar y distribuir medicamentos, comida y agua mientras las tiendas siguen cerradas o proteger a la población y lxs manifestantes de los grupos violentos de extrema derecha.

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