{"id":138512,"date":"2021-02-16T18:09:26","date_gmt":"2021-02-16T23:09:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=138512"},"modified":"2021-02-16T18:12:59","modified_gmt":"2021-02-16T23:12:59","slug":"blood-on-their-hands-minneapolis-business-owner-tears-into-city-council-that-called-for-defunding-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/blood-on-their-hands-minneapolis-business-owner-tears-into-city-council-that-called-for-defunding-police\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Blood On Their Hands\u2019: Minneapolis Business Owner Tears Into City Council That Called For Defunding Police"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fblood-on-their-hands-minneapolis-business-owner-tears-into-city-council-that-called-for-defunding-police%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=138512&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/GettyImages-1216512352.jpg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>On Tuesday, a Minneapolis business owner, responding to the news that the Minneapolis City Council was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/hundreds-of-minneapolis-police-officers-left-after-getting-slammed-now-city-spending-millions-for-new-recruits\/\">spending over $6 million<\/a> to hire recruits for the city\u2019s police force after having called in the past for defunding the police, stated, \u201cThey saw an opportunity to take down a system and they\u2019ve got a lot of blood on their hands right now because of it.&nbsp; We had over 550 people shot in our city in 2020.&nbsp; We had over 80 murders and the far majority of those people, those victims, were people of color.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/video.foxnews.com\/v\/6232643290001#sp=show-clips\">exchange prompting the remark<\/a> came on Fox &amp; Friends. Host Peter Doocy asked business owner Jay Ettinger, \u201cAfter the George Floyd unrest there were, the town council there in Minneapolis, said, \u2018You know what? The police are doing a bad job. We\u2019ve got to reimagine it; we\u2019ve got to defund the police.\u2019 &nbsp;And that became a movement all across the country. There were people who said taking money from the police does not make sense, and now fast forward to today and now your town council is saying, \u2018You know what, we need more police.\u2019 &nbsp;What happened?\u201d<\/p>\n<div>\u201cIf you gave this script to a Hollywood director, what\u2019s happened to our city in the last nine months, to be frank, the last three years, they would laugh at the premise, it\u2019s so absurd,\u201d Ettinger answered. \u201cWe had nine city council members stand on a stage with big letters in front of the stage, saying, calling to defund the police.&nbsp; If you were to interview those councilmembers, there were <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mprnews.org\/story\/2021\/01\/15\/minneapolis-council-to-try-again-with-plan-to-replace-police\">nine of the 13<\/a> who stood up there, you\u2019d probably get five or six different answers from them what that actually means.&nbsp; So there\u2019s no consistency, no cohesiveness in their group and in their attempts to what they\u2019re trying to do.\u201d<\/div>\n<p>\u201cUltimately, if you were to poll the people in Minneapolis, who would think, \u2018Ok this is a good idea, let\u2019s defund the police,\u2019 what would that public opinion poll look like?\u201d Doocy asked.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou know, I think in Minneapolis, probably 20-25% might support that idea, as crazy as it sounds,\u201d Ettinger posited. \u201cI think if you took one step outside of Minneapolis, I think 95% to 99% think it\u2019s absurd.&nbsp; The terminology was dangerous.&nbsp; When George Floyd died on May 25, obviously our community directly was greatly impacted as well as the whole country, but when that happened, and I woke up on May 26 and watched the video, I was heartbroken; I was angry; I was disgusted; I had all sorts of emotions.&nbsp; But one of the things that I came out of that a day or two later after I was able to kind of digest what happened was, I saw an opportunity for us all to come together because it didn\u2019t matter whether you\u2019re white or black, Republican or Democrat, old or young, everybody was heartbroken by what they saw, and upset by what they saw.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe difference is, I can\u2019t tell you what\u2019s in our city council\u2019s heart,\u201d he continued. \u201cIt wouldn\u2019t be fair for me to say what\u2019s in their hearts, but what I can tell you is they saw a whole different kind of opportunity.&nbsp; They saw an opportunity to take down a system and they\u2019ve got a lot of blood on their hands right now because of it.&nbsp; We had over 550 people shot in our city in 2020.&nbsp; We had over 80 murders and the far majority of those people, those victims, were people of color.&nbsp; And so I don\u2019t know exactly who they think they\u2019re helping because this defund the police movement has hurt the black community in our city more than any other and the black leadership in our city is not being heard.&nbsp; Our faith leaders, our educators, our coaches, they\u2019re just not being heard by the city council.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Doocy commented, \u201cAnd the pickle that the city is in now, where they\u2019re going, \u2018We need to come up with six million more dollars to hire more police,\u2019 this is completely inflicted upon the city of Minneapolis by the city of Minneapolis council. And you say, \u2018Come November, it\u2019s time to get rid as many as possible.&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ettinger concluded, \u201cThis is the most important election in this city\u2019s history and if we get it right, we can turn this around really quickly. We\u2019re three years removed from having the Super Bowl here, and two years removed from having a Final Four.&nbsp; And what this city looks like today compared to two and three years ago is startling.&nbsp; And so this election we\u2019ve got to get it right.&nbsp; And we have to vote for the greater good.&nbsp; We have to vote for what\u2019s best for everybody in our community. \u2026 Everything is falling on deaf ears right now with this city council.\u201d<\/p>\n<div><em><span>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. 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