Black residents make up about 20 percent of Minneapolis but well over 60 percent of the shooting victims. Alas, you’d never know that from the public discussion, said Samuels, because these shootings mostly don’t involve white cops. “For the last year, I and my neighbors have watched Black mothers react with incredulity when their child is killed in community violence and not by a white cop. Their tragedies do not trigger citywide protest rallies, people don’t say their child’s name and there are no citywide demands that this has to stop.” Mayor Jacob Frey, a Democrat, has been courageously fighting his reckless City Council’s police defunders. “When you make big, overarching statements that we’re going to defund or abolish and dismantle the police department and get rid of all the officers, there’s an impact,” he said recently. “We need accountability and a culture shift within our department, and we need police.” Last week Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, at Frey’s request, ordered the National Guard to “start preparing” to be sent into Minneapolis, if needed, to help the local police keep the peace.