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MINNEAPOLIS (AP) The fiery leader of Minneapolis' police union has built a reputation of defying the city, long before he offered the union's full support to the officers charged in George Floyd's death.
When the mayor banned warrior training for officers last year, Lt. Bob Kroll said the union would offer the training instead. When the city restricted officers from wearing uniforms at political events, he had T-shirts made to support President Donald Trump. He commended off-duty officers who walked away from a security detail after players on the state's professional women's basketball team, the Minnesota Lynx, wore Black Lives Matter T-shirts. And after Floyd's death, he didn't hold back as he called unrest in the city a terrorist movement.
As Minneapolis tries to overhaul its police department in the wake of Floyds death, city leaders will collide with a pugnacious and powerful union that has long resisted such change. But that union and Kroll are coming under greater pressure than ever before, with some members daring to speak out in support of change and police leaders vowing to negotiate a contract tougher on bad cops.
Other unions have publicly called for Kroll's removal, while public opinion polls show more Americans are shifting their views on police violence and believe offending officers are treated too leniently.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/minneapolis-talk-changing-pd-means-165110495.html
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,829 posts)would be a major step toward cleaning up the MPD, which has been needed for years.
Celerity
(43,485 posts)Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)to move on the PD. So,if Kroll threatens to with hold personnel,he has to ask himself this,are his People willing to work for G-4 at minimum wage,cause that will be the only Hiring for his Goons.
Lots of Door shaker jobs at the Rail Yards.
msongs
(67,434 posts)The Magistrate
(95,252 posts)They should start by firing Kroll. Let the shit-heel sue, but pull his badge and gun and do it now.
Refuse to offer a contract to the union.
Provoke a strike and fire everyone who walks out.
Even if every officer must be turfed out, the city will be the better for it. That department is irredeemable.