Angry activists on the Minneapolis school board want to terminate the district’s contract with the city police department amid the fallout from the death of George Floyd.

Floyd’s death while in custody of city police sparked race riots in Minneapolis that spread across the country in recent weeks, provoking deadly confrontations with police, looting and other mayhem.

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Minneapolis school board member Josh Pauly helped draft a resolution that’s expected to be considered Tuesday that would remove school resource officers and task the superintendent with finding another way to keep students safe, The Guardian reports.

“The district has decided the current contract and any continuing contract for services with the Minneapolis Police Department do not align with the priorities of the district’s equity and social emotional learning goals,” the resolution reads.

Pauly took to Twitter last week to argue Minneapolis Public Schools “cannot partner with organizations that do not see the humanity in our students.”

While the district “does not have the ability or authority to arrest and prosecute the officers who murdered George Floyd,” Pauly said, “we do have the ability to send a very clear message, not only through public statements, but through action.”

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Jackie Byers, an activist with the Black Organizing Project working to remove police from Oakland public schools, told The Guardian it would help her efforts immensely if Minneapolis board members approve the resolution.

“It’s a very specific group of people who feel safe with police, but most black and brown children do not feel safe with police in schools,” Byers alleged.

Pauly contends the move to expel MPD from the city’s schools is backed by school board chairwoman Kim Ellison and board director Siad Ali. The city’s teacher’s union is also on board.

“The officers of the Minneapolis police department have become symbols of fear to the children those officers were sworn to serve and protect,” union officials wrote in a prepared statement.

He also blamed the destruction in the city in the wake of Floyd’s death on the police department.

“Our communities are in pain and our city is on fire as a result of MPDs blatant disregard for black lives,” Pauly wrote.

Pauly told The Guardian he’s received calls from school districts in Arizona, North Carolina, Wisconsin, Washington, Oregon, New York and Illinois who are interested in crafting similar resolutions to severe ties with local police.

Byers contends many school districts are hesitant, and “need someone to step forward” to topple the first domino.

“Folks are afraid of being the first district to do something,” Byers said.

“In San Francisco, we’ve had 10-year-olds that have had the police called on them. Kindergarteners. Fifth-graders,” Neva Walker, head of the nonprofit Coleman Advocates for Children and Youth, told the news site.

“We have to get past the idea that police are the means to protect our children, especially for black and brown students.”

Byers noted MPS is following the lead of the University of Minnesota, which announced last week it would no longer contract with city police for football games or other events, and would limit cooperation with the department.