Minneapolis residents are forming armed neighborhood watches as shootings triple after George Floyd's death

Minneapolis has seen a sudden rise in violence in the wake of the police-involved killing of George Floyd at the end of May.

Late last week the Minneapolis city council voted to cut $1.5 million from the police department's $193 million budget, according to local outlets the Star Tribune and KSTP. A portion of that money will be diverted into the Office of Violence Prevention, which pays for civilian safety patrols across the city's neighborhoods.

Related video: What historians, activists think about the movement to remove statuesThe number of shootings in May, June, and July have all risen compared to last year, The Journal reported, citing MPD data. June saw a total of 75 shooting incidents, compared to 24 in the same period last year, The Journal reported.

"It got to the point where crime had no consequences," Rivera was quoted saying."It was being done deliberately out in the open. Drive-through drug dealing, drive-through prostitution, everything from gunshots to assaults to sex out in the public. Everything you didn't want your neighborhood to look like."

Is this the 'Boogey Man White People's' fault, as well? I'm being serious on this. Us whites, seem to always get blamed for this junk, as well. Pretty sad.

Vote for Biden and we will all need armed neighborhood watches.

Democrats appear to be for continuing violence and destruction. Let's punish these morons the American way at the ballot box

Gee. What could go wrong by doing that ? 🤷🏽‍♂️

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