MINNEAPOLIS Mayor Jacob Frey was heckled and booed by George Floyd protesters after he said he was against defunding the city’s police department.
Frey was met with resounding jeers at the peaceful protests in Minnesota on Saturday after telling demonstrators he didn’t support abolishing the Minneapolis Police Department.
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His comments came hours after Rep Ilhan Omar had called the city’s police force “rotten to the root” at another protest in Minneapolis.
Several videos on social media showed the heated confrontation, which happened when protesters marched to the mayor’s home and called him to come out, according to CNN.
“Jacob Frey, we have a yes or no question for you: yes or no, will you commit to defunding the Minneapolis Police Department?” asked a protest leader.
The mayor appears hesitant before the woman repeats her question, to which Frey shakes his head and replies: “I do not support defunding the Minneapolis police.”
The group of demonstrators immediately erupt in jeers as the woman points at Frey and says, “Get the f**k outta here!”
Frey was sworn into office in 2018 as the second-youngest mayor in Minneapolis history.
The 38-year-old was an employment and civil rights attorney before taking office, according to the city’s website.
He promised to heal the broken relationship between cops and civilians, and part of his platform included introducing implicit bias training, de-escalation techniques, and officer accountability, according to Ballotpedia.
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The dejected mayor resembled fallen Game of Thrones queen Cersei Lannister as he took his own walk of shame through the crowd.
“Shame! Shame!” dozens chanted as he walked through a sea of protesters who shouted at him.
In one viral video shared on Twitter, a protester appears to shout right behind Frey’s back as the mayor retreated.
While Frey was taunted by protesters, Omar called for the abolition of the city’s police department at a different demonstration in Minneapolis on Saturday.
“It’s time to disband the Minneapolis Police Department,” she declared.
“I will never cosign on funding a police department that continues to brutalize us and I will never stop saying, not only do we need to dis-invest police but we need to completely dismantle the Minneapolis Police Department.”
“The Minneapolis Police Department is rotten to the root,” Omar continued.
“And so when we dismantle it, we get rid of that cancer and we allow for something to rise. And that reimagining allows us to figure out what public safety looks like.”
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