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Madness in Minneapolis

11 June 2020

5:26 AM

11 June 2020

5:26 AM

My City Council in Minneapolis has decided to de-something the police. Defend? Nah. Defund.

But by ‘defund’, they don’t mean ‘abolish’, silly. And by ‘abolish’, they don’t mean ‘abolish’ at all. They mean something far less radical, which is why they chose the most alarming and polarizing words in the dictionary.

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