Election Day
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The residents of the city of Minnesota are called to the polls this Tuesday to choose to keep or replace their police forces. A divisive question within this Democratic stronghold, a year and a half following the murder of African-American George Floyd by white policeman Derek Chauvin.
In the very rich, even indigestible American electoral calendar, 2021 is what is called a «off-year». Understand, a white year, without presidential elections or legislative “midterms” likely to topple the White House or the control of Congress. The political wheel, despite everything, never really stops turning in the United States. And this Tuesday, millions of Americans are therefore called to the polls for elections that are certainly local, but not for all that devoid of issues, lessons or national resonance. The people of New Jersey and Virginia elect their governor, a test of mobilization on the Democratic and Republican side. Those of Boston, New York, Miami or Detroit, choose their mayor. But it is especially towards Minneapolis that eyes are turned.
A year and a half following the death of George Floyd, a 46-year-old African American asphyxiated under the knee of white police officer Derek Chauvin, sentenced this summer to twenty-two and a half years in prison for murder, the inhabitants of the main city of Minnesota, which has become both the epicenter of anger over police brutality and…
