Minneapolis votes on whether to replace police department

Future of policing is on the ballot in the city where Floyd's death in May 2020 launched a nationwide reckoning on racial justice

Voters in Minneapolis will decide on Tuesday whether to replace their police department with a new Department of Public Safety, more than a year after the murder of George Floyd, a Black man, by a white police officer launched a national movement to defund or abolish police.

The Democratic mayor, Jacob Frey, is also in a tough fight for a second term, facing opponents who attacked him in the wake of Floyd's death.