Thread on communities in Minneapolis without police.

In Minneapolis, in the face of organized abandonment from the police:

- Community defense units have organized neighborhood by neighborhood and even block by block. In a day.

- People are pooling firefighting resources, getting hoses ready, sharing shifts.

- American Indian Movement members have been patrolling neighborhoods preventing looters from looting and burning native buildings.

- A SHERATON hotel in the middle of the city has been occupied and community is guarding it from white supremacists while moving 100 unhoused people in.

- Bus drivers have refused to ferry people to jail.

- Neighbors are going door to door, checking in on people’s needs.

- Community meetings are being assembled on the fly in parks.

- There are enough accomplices on every block that where there is one shitty white person telling their neighborhood to call the cops, there is another accomplice building an abolitionist community defense plan.

(report by Charmaine Chua)