Ilhan Omar blames 'dysfunctional' police for Minneapolis violent crime spike


Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., blamed police for the recent rise in crime in Minneapolis, accusing the city's officers of not fulfilling their oath of office.

"What we must also recognize is that the reduction in policing currently in our city and the lawlessness that is happening is due to two things," Omar said during a town hall event Saturday in Minneapolis.

One of them, she said, is that "the police have chosen to not fulfill their oath of office and to provide the public safety they are owed to the citizens they serve."

But Omar pinned the blame squarely on the shoulders of the city's police department, accusing it of being "dysfunctional."

"The Minneapolis Police Department is the most dysfunctional in our state and probably in the country," Omar said.
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