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8 May, 11 tweets, 2 min read

Daunte Wright should be alive today.

Instead, his life was cut short by Brooklyn Center Police at 20 years old after being pulled over due to expired registration.

aclu.org/news/civil-lib…

Today Brooklyn Center Mayor Mike Elliott introduced a resolution that will provide a model to other municipalities on the best way to re-examine the meaning of public safety and to invest in alternative public safety mechanisms and structures.

startribune.com/unarmed-traffi…

Among other things, the Daunte Wright And Kobe Dimock-Heisler Community Safety And Violence Prevention Resolution will:

☑️ Implement a citywide “citation and summons” policy requiring officers to issue citations only, and prohibit custodial arrests or searches of persons or vehicles, for any non-moving traffic infraction, non-felony offense, or non-felony warrant.

☑️ Create a Community Response Department consisting of:

🧑‍⚕️ trained medical and mental health professionals and social workers,

☎️ a dispatch system routing appropriate calls to this department and not to the Police.

☑️ Create an unarmed civilian Traffic Enforcement Department with the responsibility for enforcing all non-moving traffic violations in the City.

☑️ Eliminate instances of armed law enforcement officers using force and making custodial arrests for low-level offenses or warrants.

Police still exist to uphold white supremacy and have been empowered by laws and the courts to inject themselves into Black life for any reason, no matter how minor, even an expired registration.

As long as police continue to serve their original purpose to control Black communities, reprehensible acts of police violence like this will be commonplace.

This resolution is an important first move.

We’ll keep fighting to support grassroots organizations and Black organizers to make this kind of public safety a reality across the country.

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