The June 6 meeting Eric Kendricks and nine other Vikings attended with Minneapolis police chief Medaria Arradondo came a day before nine City Council members announced in Powderhorn Park they would commit to defunding the city’s police force.
Minneapolis’ reckoning over its relationship with law enforcement, which moved at a frenetic pace in the days after the May 25 killing of George Floyd, has arrived at a complicated juncture since then.
On Wednesday, the Minneapolis Charter Commission decided to take an extra 90 days to consider a City Council amendment to remake the police department, blocking that measure from going before voters this fall.