Ilhan Omar Accuses Police of Not Fulfilling Their Oath of Office, Blames Them for the Rise in Violent Crime in Minneapolis

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OMAR: "What we must also recognize is that the reduction in policing currently in our city and the lawlessness that is happening is due to two things. One, the police have chosen to not fulfill their oath of office and to provide the public safety they are owed to the citizens they serve. Right? It's documented. But even before that it was documented. Minneapolis Police Department is the most dysfunctional police department in our state and probably in the country. The second part is that there has to be accountability and someone that is actually taking responsibility for what the police does and doesn't do. And that doesn't exist in this moment. And I do believe that the current charter that we have does tie the hands of those who want to have that accountability, because we are mandated to have a specific amount of policing, we are mandated to, you know, have the kind of police union contract that we have right now. I don't know any other big city in the state of Minnesota that has the charter that we have. It just doesn't exist."