Minnesota

After the murder of George Floyd and the subsequent police riots in which police slashed tires of press vehicles and assaulted citizens on their porches with paint guns, the mayor of Minneapolis complained that he needed the Executive power to rein in police lawlessness. This caused the City Charter Commission to offer up a referendum to change the charter. It passed in 2021. So now when the mayor has been directed by that change to call on the City Council to legislate changes making Minneapolis citizens safer, he chooses to call on the State to do something. That is performative piffle.