Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey was forced to leave a protest outside his home led by the Black Visions Collective, a group seeking to defund U.S. police departments in favor of community-based safety measures.

Chants of “Black Lives Matter,” “shame” and “get the f**k out” were aimed at the mayor, after he declined to say he would completely abolish the Minneapolis Police Department in the wake of George Floyd’s May 25 death.

A protest organizer with a microphone put the mayor on the spot and asked him point-blank if he will vow to abolish the police before he’s up for re-election next year.

“We have a yes or no question for you: Will you commit to defunding the Minneapolis Police Department? We don’t want no more police, is that clear?”

“It’s important for everyone to hear this because if y’all don’t know he’s up for re-election next year,” the protest organizer said, prompting raucous applause from the crowd. “He’s up for re-election next year – and if he says ’no,’ guess what the f**k we gonna do next year.”

Wearing a mask amid what police and organizers described on social media as thousands of attendees, the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party mayor replied: “I have been coming to grips with my own responsibility, my own failure in this … I do not support the full abolition of the Police Department.”

The crowd immediately became hostile toward Frey despite him having repeatedly expressed support for the protesters, culminating on Friday with the mayor breaking down in tears in front of George Floyd’s casket during a memorial service.

Newsweek reached out to Frey’s office for additional reactions Sunday morning.

Local news station WCCO-TV interviewed the mayor after the rally who offered this response to the protester’s earlier question:

On social media, Frey has criticized police union president Lieutenant Bob Kroll for not offering support of the protesters and instead adopting a hard-line stance against the demonstrators.

A few members of the Minneapolis City Council have said they are determined to “dismantle” the MPD.

In contrast to Frey’s appearance, Minnesota Congresswoman Ilhan Omar gave a speech Saturday at an adjacent Minneapolis rally that fired up the crowd. “Stop killing black people,” she proclaimed to cheers and applause.

Omar described the city’s police department as “inherently beyond reform.”