Rep. Ilhan Omar (D., Minn.) called the fatal Minneapolis police shooting of Dolal Idd a "state sanctioned murder"—despite body-camera footage showing that Idd fired at police first. The Minneapolis City Council voted to cut millions in funding from the city's police department on Thursday as Minneapolis's homicide and violent crime rates skyrocket. Just three months after voting to fully dismantle its police department, the Minneapolis City Council complained about the city's insufficient policing at a meeting on Tuesday. 
Sen. Kamala Harris (D., Calif.) told a Minneapolis news station Wednesday she would "never condone violence or destruction of property," but she promoted a nonprofit that bailed out people arrested for violent offenses in the aftermath of George Floyd's death. 
A Minneapolis city ordinance forbids the use of security shutters for business windows, rendering businesses vulnerable to millions of dollars in theft and damages during citywide riots, the Star Tribune reported Monday.
A murder suspect killed himself as police surrounded him in Minneapolis on Wednesday—sparking another wave of rioting and looting as misinformation spread that police had killed him.
Rep. Val Demings (D., Fla.) called the Minneapolis City Council "very thoughtful" on Monday in its intent to defund and dismantle the police department. 
Minneapolis City Council President Lisa Bender on Monday defended her governing body's plan to phase out the police department by saying she can imagine a future without police. 
“If a writer pitched Rep. Ilhan Omar’s life story to a Hollywood producer as a movie, it would likely be rejected as simply too impossible to believe,” Dean Obeidallah wrote recently at Salon.
A group of armed civilians successfully defended a pair of stores as riots tore through Minneapolis on Wednesday.
