The US city of Minneapolis is reportedly planning to disband its police force.
The Minneapolis City Council on Sunday pledged to de-fund its force and replace it with a community-based policing alternative, US media reported.
"It is clear that our system of policing is not keeping our communities safe," said Minneapolis City Council President Lisa Bender. "Our efforts at incremental reform have failed, period."
Nine of the council's 12 members back the proposal, so it can't be vetoed. Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey has previously said he opposed defunding the city's police force.
"This council is going to dismantle this police department," council member Jeremiah Ellison reportedly said.
The move comes after the death of George Floyd, an unarmed African-American man, at the hands of the city's police two weeks ago, sparking major protests across the nation and worldwide.
Several of the city police department's partners, including local universities and schools, have reportedly already cut ties.
Council members said they haven't got a proposed replacement sorted out yet, but would "develop plans by working with the community" and "draw on past studies, consent decrees and reforms to policing across the nation and the world", according to the New York Times.
