The author cites factual, verifiable information, including the council vote, the police budget, and where this budget ranks among other U.S. cities.

Americans of color continue to be disproportionately assaulted, tortured, and murdered by the police.

Minneapolis has taken a small first step toward holding their police accountable, and the author has reported this.

And yet what I see in the comments here is typically ignorant, fearful, uninformed, unsupported, and misleading babble.

Rather than shrieking and throwing your own feces, who'd like to propose a better solution than the one the author is describing?