CARE NOT COPS

The announcement that the City Council had voted to disband Minneapolis’ police department came after nearly two weeks of protest, triggered by the killing of 46-year-old black man George Floyd by white police officer Derek Chauvin. The collective grief and rage against racism and police brutality spread across the US and the world.

For Jae Hyun Shim, an organizer with Reclaim the Block, it was a ‘culture shifting’ moment. The group has been pushing for several years for money to be moved from the police department into areas of the city’s budget that promote community health and safety. ‘We have worked really hard to try and remedy some of the trauma that we have been seeing.’ Shim lists some of the people