Why We Don’t Need The Police: The Basics
5 min readJul 9, 2020
George Floyd was murdered on May 25, 2020 just a few blocks from my house. The 3rd Minneapolis Precinct was set on fire just a few blocks away in the other direction. My family lived right in the middle of it all: the helicopters, the explosions, the fires and the smoke. This lasted for days.
I was enraged and heartbroken over the callous ending to George Floyd’s life. I knew that the police…
