Community Voices: Teto

Teto is voting NO on Question 2 because
it doesn’t make sense.

Question 2 gets rid of the Minneapolis Police Department and puts the City Council in charge of public safety—but they haven’t explained what that means and the story keeps changing.

Meet Teto.

Teto lives in North Minneapolis where he also owns and operates a barbershop that serves as a resource hub for the community.

Teto’s community is experiencing the impacts of fewer police.

He sees it from his window as police fly up and down the street from emergency to emergency.

Teto believes we need better policing—hiring more good cops and getting rid of the bad ones.

That includes hiring more beat cops who live locally to walk neighborhood streets, developing good relationships with the businesses and neighbors.

Minneapolis needs real, durable, and comprehensive reforms to policing that ensure both justice AND public safety—not a dangerous experiment in eliminating the Minneapolis Police Department.

To learn more about why Minneapolis voters across the city—Black, Brown, and white—are uniting to vote NO on Question 2, visit here.