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The Minneapolis mayor is asking for federal help cleaning up and rebuilding his city after rioters caused at least $55 million worth of damage through looting, burning, and defacing public and private property.
That cost estimate is likely to increase in the coming days as government officials continue to tally the damage done in the wake of George Floyd’s death, Mayor Jacob Frey said according to the Minneapolis Star Tribune. Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and the state’s congressional delegation are also pushing the Trump administration and Congress for funding.
On Tuesday, city officials released an initial estimate of $55 million in damage done to at least 220 buildings. The mayor said that the number was likely a lowball estimate and that the total cost of the riots across Minneapolis and the state capital of St. Paul is likely to be “tens, if not hundreds of millions” of dollars.
Teaches them self-reliance. They'll show us the way to Utopia!
I'm all for self-reliance. But it has to be put in place across the board. Singling out a single city is not beneficial for Americans.
Shrink the federal government, drastically reduce the taxes collected by the federal government, and allow the states to be self-reliant. Unfortunately, we're going in the wrong direction. A big government, should there be one, should do what's best for the people... all people.
Your suggestion of defunding a city is pure immature chaos... as is your expectation of this leading to Utopia.
Any mayor who constrained his police force from fully defending the city from looters and arsonists should not get taxpayers of other states to pay for the damage.
Besides, does this liberal incompetent really plan to start rebuilding ASAP? Ellison may have overreached with 2nd degree, and if the cop is acquitted, the savages will destroy everything in sight....again.
Obviously he is concerned for the police whom he has just thrown under the bus
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