Twenty-three residents of Duluth speak at the City Council meeting for over an hour and a half, calling for action on the petition items circulated during the Juneteenth rally. The petition about the DPD, in particular, has over 3,000 signatures. This was not an agenda topic, and councilors are clearly thrown off by the surge of vocal support for everything from defunding, to racial bias audits, to redistribution of work that falls outside of police expertise.
Impact: The city sees that residents are not sitting back: there are clear asks, and Duluthians would like to see forward movement on them.