There’s a lot of unhealed wounds in the neighborhood, Jacob Frey’s city government has done an absolute shit job of handling it all, and feelings around this run •deep•. The building is both physical and symbolic blight — and thus what happens to it is symbolic too.
Imagine, after everything they’ve done with basically zero real accountability for the department, imagine the Minneapolis Police getting a giant shiny new building. Imagine, and you’ll begin to understand the community outrage.