Blue city, red state battle: Kansas City feuds over ‘colonial’ police system

Democratic city does not control its police force – and reform attempts have been thwarted by Republicans

Quinton Lucas said he thinks his city’s police department “is a colonial system”.

“I think it is anti-Black. I think it is anti-immigrant. I think it is anti-almost everything we stand for in terms of making sure that diverse populations in major cities have a voice in terms of navigating it,” the Kansas City mayor said.