Minneapolis mayor: City seeks right mentors for new officers

[Omaha Steve]

Source: AP

By MOHAMED IBRAHIM and AMY FORLITI

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey said the city is working to pair new police officers with “the right individuals” for field training following George Floyd’s death, in which a senior officer rejected a younger colleague’s question about how Floyd was being restrained.

In an interview with The Associated Press as part of its AP Newsmakers series, Frey said the city wants to make sure that the training new officers get isn’t undermined once they go into the field.

“We need to make sure that those who are in a supervisory role, those that are riding with new officers with new cadets, are the right individuals to be role models,” Frey said. “You learn from who your role models are, and that can be a good thing and that can also be a bad thing.”

Floyd, a 47-year-old Black man who was in handcuffs, died May 25 after Officer Derek Chauvin pressed his knee against Floyd’s neck for nearly eight minutes as Floyd pleaded for air. Chauvin, who is white, is charged with second-degree murder. Three other officers who were at the scene — Thomas Lane, Tou Thao and J. Kueng — are charged with aiding and abetting.



FILE - In this July 29, 2020 file photo, Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey speaks during a press conference in Minneapolis. In an interview with the Minneapolis Star Tribune Monday, Aug. 3, 2020, Frey said that Gov. Tim Walz hesitated to send in the National Guard to quell the growing violence after the death of George Floyd and then blamed him for allowing the city to burn. (Evan Frost/Minnesota Public Radio via AP File)


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[msongs]

1. step one - use RICO to investigate the police union and disband it nt

[OldBaldy1701E]

2. Step Two

Remove all instructors who came from the military. Do not allow any returning active duty personnel into any street level police positions until they have had at least a year to return to normal as well as psychological testing to make sure there are no lasting effects from being in an active war zone. You remove the 'us vs. them' and the 'VICTORY!' mentality that every military person has had instilled into them, as well as remove that aspect of police training, you will see some changes. Until then, as long as we keep putting military people into civilian police forces, as long as we keep letting them program the new officers into their war-like mentality, we are going to have these problems. (We won't go into the massive percentage of military personnel who are secret racists, but that's another issue for another time).

[Mr.Bill]

3. The fact that they are just thinking about this now

is the real problem.