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‘The Minneapolis Reckoning:’ New book traces the city’s journey to the brink of police reform

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Four years ago this week, a movement to defund and abolish the Minneapolis Police Department ignited across the city and the world.


George Floyd, a 46-year-old Black man and St. Louis Park resident, was killed by a Minneapolis police officer in the Powderhorn neighborhood of Minneapolis.


In those four years since his murder, everything — and nothing — has changed.


The Minneapolis Police Department was not defunded. And the city is still struggling to come to terms with what safety and accountability look like in the aftermath.


A new book traces how Minneapolis arrived at the brink of police abolition, and why true reform is so hard to come by.


It’s called “The Minneapolis Reckoning: Race, Violence and the Politics of Policing in America.”


MPR News host Angela Davis talked with the book’s author, sociologist Michelle Phelps.


Guest: 


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Four years ago this week, a movement to defund and abolish the Minneapolis Police Department ignited across the city and the world.


George Floyd, a 46-year-old Black man and St. Louis Park resident, was killed by a Minneapolis police officer in the Powderhorn neighborhood of Minneapolis.


In those four years since his murder, everything — and nothing — has changed.


The Minneapolis Police Department was not defunded. And the city is still struggling to come to terms with what safety and accountability look like in the aftermath.


A new book traces how Minneapolis arrived at the brink of police abolition, and why true reform is so hard to come by.


It’s called “The Minneapolis Reckoning: Race, Violence and the Politics of Policing in America.”


MPR News host Angela Davis talked with the book’s author, sociologist Michelle Phelps.


Guest: 


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