It was humiliation on a scale almost unimaginable outside of cinema or nightmare. But for Mayor Jacob Frey of Minneapolis, a 38-year-old civil rights lawyer who swept into office in 2018 on promises to fix the broken relationship between the community and the police, it was all too real. There he was on Saturday, retreating through a sea of protesters yelling, “Go home, Jacob, go home!” and “Shame! Shame!” after he refused to commit to defunding the Police Department. As he walked away, the crowd continued to chant “Shame!

Source: New York Times June 07, 2020 04:41 UTC