BREAKING: Minneapolis Police Chief calls off negotiations with Police Union

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[dalton99a]

1. They need to get out from under Bob Kroll and his thugs

[OAITW r.2.0]

2. Ought to be a template for dealing with every problem police union promoting the violence culture.

[Dawson Leery]

3. These "unions" need to be busted!

That is all.

[2naSalit]

4. Expect a shitstorm of a temper tatrums from the

unions and associations.

[Fiendish Thingy]

10. AFL-CIO say Kroll should resign as head of Mpls union nt

[greenjar_01]

5. Let them go on strike, so we can see just how unnecessary most of them really are

Much of police work is just make work for white suburban losers. It's a welfare system and a sinecure.

[beachbumbob]

6. the power of the police unions/federations must be BROKEN

and takes guts to do it and we do not elect officials who have those guts

[Mike 03]

7. Kicking

Bob Kroll is a troglodyte.

[DonaldsRump]

9. Is he ever!

What a pathetic "law enforcement" officer:

Kroll joined the Minneapolis Police Department in 1989. He was on the department's SWAT team for 15 years, and served in the vice unit, public housing unit, and as head of the domestic violence unit. He was promoted to sergeant in 1994, elected to the board of the Police Officers Federation of Minneapolis in 1996 and named vice president in 2006. He won his first two-year term as president of the union in May 2015. As head of the federation and its approximately 800 members, Kroll advocates for additional police officers and additional autonomy of the police.

Over his career, Kroll has been involved in three officer shootings. By 2015, Kroll had accumulated 20 internal affairs complaints, only three of which were disciplined, including one that led to his demotion. In 1994, Kroll received a five-day suspension for excessive use of force that was later overturned. A 1995 lawsuit against Kroll in federal court alleged that he had used racial slurs while beating, choking and kicking a 15-year-old multi-racial boy. Kroll oversaw a botched Emergency Response Unit drug raid in 1996 where an officer was shot by friendly fire. During a no-knock raid on an elderly couple's residence in September 2002, Kroll was among several officers accused of using excessive force. A lawsuit regarding the incident was settled for $60,000. In March 2003 Kroll was involuntarily demoted for ethical violations. He had his rank reinstated three months later. A City of Minneapolis attorney recommended settling a lawsuit for $15,000 stemming from Kroll kicking and beating a suspect at an impound lot in February 2004.

While off-duty in May 2004, Kroll and another officer assaulted several people at an art crawl in northeast Minneapolis. After a man allegedly bumped up against their vehicle, Kroll and the other officer, dressed in plain clothes, punched him, throwing him on the sidewalk and hitting his head on the ground. They taunted bystanders and then punched the man's sister and kicked another person in the face. A complaint about the incident was sustained by the Civilian Review Authority and Kroll was suspended for 20 days. One month later, during a departmental ethics class, Kroll said that then-Congressman Keith Ellison, a Muslim, was a terrorist. He also used a homophobic slur against a gay staffer to mayor R. T. Rybak, resulting in his suspension.

In 2007, Kroll was named multiple times in a racial discrimination lawsuit brought against the city of Minneapolis by five black officers, including current MPD Chief Medaria Arradondo. The lawsuit described Kroll as having "a history of discriminatory attitudes and conduct," saying that he wore a motorcycle jacket that had a white power patch. The lawsuit also alleged that Kroll was racially discriminatory in overtime assignments following the I-35W bridge collapse. According to Deputy Chief Art Knight, Kroll subscribes to the "broken windows" theory of policing.

After the shooting of Jamar Clark in 2015, Kroll contradicted witness statements that Clark was handcuffed at the moment of the shooting, saying he was actively resisting arrest and tried to take the weapon of one of the officers. He referred to the Black Lives Matter movement as a "terrorist organization." Kroll was also critical of the responses of then-mayor Betsy Hodges and MPD Chief Janeé Harteau, who said that Kroll's views were "not consistent with 21st-century policing."

In 2016, after officers walked off a job at a Minnesota Lynx game over jerseys that said "Black Lives Matter," Kroll said that he commended the four officers, saying that Lynx games had "such a pathetic draw." An email from police chief Harteau to Kroll was leaked to the press in July 2016. In the email, Harteau orders Kroll to only wear his police uniform for MPD-sanctioned purposes, including in his capacity as union representative.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Kroll_(police_officer)

[Crunchy Frog]

12. He should have been shitcanned and probably jailed years ago. n/t

[npk]

8. Good.

These police unions have been protecting bad cops for too long. This is long overdue change.

[Crunchy Frog]

11. I don't understand exactly what's going on here. Is he cutting them out of the negotiations?

Eliminating these unions as they currently exist should be top priority. No way to carry out meaningful reforms until that happens.