Violence rises in Minneapolis, as
debate over role of police rages
Washington Post,
by
Holly Bailey
Original Article
Posted By: Pluperfect,
6/27/2020 4:58:00 AM
MINNEAPOLIS — At first, it sounded like fireworks, a loud crackling noise that has become the daily soundtrack of the city in recent weeks. But when David Trueblood, a coach for the Minnesota Jays youth football team, felt a bullet go whizzing by his head and heard the rapid pings of metal spray across a fence in Jordan Park, he screamed for his players, 50 kids aged 5 to 14, to hit the ground.
As gunfire rang out early Monday evening here on the city’s north side, Trueblood and six other coaches threw their bodies atop as many children as they could. Frantic parents took cover behind cars,
Reply 1 - Posted by:
PChristopher 6/27/2020 5:32:33 AM (No. 458712)
What did you people think was going to happen? If you don't stand up to this violence, it's going to continue. I can live with the police cracking a few skulls, of ANY color, in order to properly do their job of keeping the peace. I remember when I was in college in St. Louis, back in The Before Times, there was a municipality near school named Richmond Heights. Everyone knew that you did not step out of line in Richmond Heights or the police there would explain to you the errors of your ways in no uncertain terms as a buddy of mine, who was no wimp, found out when he decided to get drunk and disorderly there one night. We went to Court for his arraignment and he looked like he'd been hit by a truck. He never did that again. Richmond Heights understood what it took to keep the peace. We need more of that today.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
anniebc 6/27/2020 6:01:48 AM (No. 458728)
Was this article really posted in the WaPo, or are we being punked?
12 people like this.
Reply 3 - Posted by:
DCGIRL 6/27/2020 7:08:56 AM (No. 458779)
If true, the people of Minneapolis knows what to do. It's time to start suing the people in office. They have turned on the people that elected them and their safety is in jeopardy.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
NorthernDog 6/27/2020 8:25:09 AM (No. 458857)
FTA:The police scanner has been jammed with reports of robberies, carjackings and other violent incidents across the city.
And there are also many crimes not reported at all because the wonderful citizens hate the police more than the lawbreakers.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Norway 6/27/2020 9:01:19 AM (No. 458893)
You built this, you MN idiots. So eat it.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
moebellini3 6/27/2020 9:23:43 AM (No. 458925)
Appalling and pathetic. These poor people still don't get it. Without law and order you have anarchy. Without law and order the violent thugs who care nothing about you, your family, your children or your business run wild and destroy everything in their path. Look at every democratic city across the country. See a pattern dummy. Any similarities dummy. The George Floyd murder was a tragedy. The police officer has been charged with murder, justice served, end of story, move on. But no, not good enough. You have to burn your own cities down, you have to murder some cops. This is your sick communist system. You either wake up now or you're doomed. Got it.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
hershey 6/27/2020 9:32:47 AM (No. 458934)
Don't go to Minneapolisistan, but if you do, carry....
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
HotRod 6/27/2020 9:45:37 AM (No. 458949)
When the democrat ''leadership'' passively, or actively, condones the violence it will continue and escalate. Heck, when a person can break into a business and steal everything, with no repercussions or accountability, what would logically happen?
Now that violence, destruction and looting have been allowed, it has become a ''right'' in the minds of the criminals. Attempts to put a stop to it will cause even more violence, destruction and looting. The democrats have made a bad situation for themselves and the citizens of their cities!
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
bigfatslob 6/27/2020 10:07:54 AM (No. 458974)
"911 what is your emergency? We are sending a counselor and community organizer to your location. Shots being fired? We are saying prayers for you try to have a safe evening".
9 people like this.
Reply 10 - Posted by:
Avanti1 6/27/2020 11:01:44 AM (No. 459046)
Minneapolis voters have elected Democrats to office for decades. Those Democrats had ample opportunity to address the problems of Minneapolis and clean up its police force; they FAILED.
Instead of filing lawsuits, the voters of Minneapolis need to throw Democrats out of office!
6 people like this.
Reply 11 - Posted by:
DVC 6/27/2020 11:12:04 AM (No. 459059)
Eventually, the people are going to INSIST on having police protection. And, depending on how far it goes, perhaps the criminal class may want protection from the citizenry. Break into a home and get caught in normal times by a cop, spend a bit of jail time. In these times....likely to get shot dead on the spot.
I think that after a "nice test drive" of anarchy, pretty much everyone will be longing for "the bad old days" of normal policing.
Let the experiment begin!
I'm glad I live far from New Mogadishu.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
DVC 6/27/2020 11:19:37 AM (No. 459068)
And of course, the WashComPost has to LIE. Always lying, that is what they do, have to add in lies when they do any report.
The say Floyd was dying "...with the officer's knee on his throat." That is an absolute lie. Words have actual meanings.
The definition of "throat" is:
"the front part of a person's or animal's neck, behind which the esophagus, trachea, and blood vessels serving the head are situated."
The officer did NOT have his knee on Floyd's throat. That is an absolute lie, and it is clear from the video that any pressure was on the back of his neck, and shoulder area. And the autopsy showed no bruising or injury to any of the delicate throat structures on the front of the neck.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
stone313 6/27/2020 11:23:01 AM (No. 459076)
This is just the beginning wait till the police department is eliminated then things will really get interesting. I am not too worried as the left always has a plan. Those plans always sound good but never ever work. I actually cannot think of this happening to a nicer group of people. Hopefully they will get it good and hard just like they want it.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
jalo1951 6/27/2020 11:44:31 AM (No. 459112)
This is what you wanted. You got it. DWI
4 people like this.
Reply 15 - Posted by:
Geoman 6/27/2020 1:20:20 PM (No. 459198)
Is it now the popular consensus among conservatives and supporters of President Trump that if you reside in a deep Blue state or municipality, then you should stew in your own misfortune? Wasn't the president a resident of NYC four years ago? In every American city, even Seattle and San Francisco, there are decent, patriotic Americans who deserve the same Constitutional protections as residents of the brightest of red states and cities. Anything less is willfully ceding parts of the U.S. to insurgents, communist and run-of-the-mill criminals alike. Can that same logic be applied to the Americans abandoned by their democrat president and Sec of State in Benghazi? Different circumstances, same logic: "They were stupid enough to join the Foreign Service..." How does the message and political strategy of "this is what you voted for" play to a 96 year old WWII veteran living in Minneapolis since 1946? While the majority of 2016 votes from Minneapolis precincts went to Hillary, more than a few voted for President Trump, yet they "deserve" to be abandoned by their president and fellow conservatives?
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
JHHolliday 6/27/2020 7:35:58 PM (No. 459450)
“The violence and lawlessness that we’ve seen the last few days is not acceptable in any form,”
How many thousands of times have we heard a politician spout these worthless and banal phrases? "Will not be tolerated" is another and then it IS tolerated, time after time after time,
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