Re: A Minneapolis Neighborhood Checked Its Privilege And Eschewed Police. How's That Working Out?

On 7/11/20 12:29 PM, Leroy N. Soetoro wrote:
> https://hotair.com/archives/ed-morrissey/2020/07/07/minneapolis-
> neighborhood-checked-privileged-eschewed-police-hows-working/
> 
> As well as you’d expect. The Star Tribune reports on the third sexual 
> assault in the Powderhorn Park neighborhood in as many weeks, although the 
> report neglects to mention its no-police pledge it took after the killing 
> of George Floyd. That led to an encampment of homeless people that now 
> number in the hundreds forming in the park itself, which the neighborhood 
> also seems determined to endure:
> 
> Three sexual assaults have occurred since late last month in south 
> Minneapolis at Powderhorn Park with the most recent as Sunday, where 
> hundreds of homeless people have camped, the Minneapolis Park and 
> Recreation Board said Tuesday.
> 
> The first incident occurred late on June 26 or early on June 27 and 
> involved a girl being assaulted, said Park Board spokeswoman Robin 
> Smothers. People from the park brought the girl to Abbott Northwestern 
> Hospital for examination, and she was later turned over to social services 
> personnel. No arrests have been made.
> 
> On June 28, a caller reached 911 shortly after 2 a.m. to report a woman 
> being assaulted at the park. The woman received medical attention and city 
> police arrested a suspect nearby.
> 
> On Sunday, a girl was assaulted by a man in the park. A Metro Transit 
> police squad vehicle was flagged down that afternoon, and “after further 
> questioning, the victim reported the assault,” said Park Board spokeswoman 
> Robin Smothers.
> 
> The New York Times featured the determination of Powderhorn Park residents 
> to keep police from responding to issues in a profile two weeks ago. It 
> had already started going badly at that point, and it clearly has gotten 
> worse since:
> 
> In the city where the movement began, residents are not surprised that it 
> is being taken especially seriously in Powderhorn Park, just blocks from 
> Mr. Floyd’s deadly encounter with the police. For decades, the community 
> has been a refuge for scrappy working-class activists with far-left 
> politics. The biggest day of the year, locals often boast, is the May Day 
> parade celebrating laborers.
> 
> Though it is one of the most diverse neighborhoods in Minneapolis, with 
> black residents making up about 17 percent of the population, white people 
> make up the largest group. About a third of the population is Latino.
> 
> Since the camp appeared, the community has organized shifts for delivering 
> warm meals, medical care and counseling to people living in the park. They 
> persuaded officials to back off an eviction notice served shortly after 
> the campers arrived.
> 
> But many in the neighborhood, who were already beleaguered from the 
> financial stresses of the coronavirus, now say they are eager for the 
> campers to move on to stable housing away from the park.
> 
> “I’m not being judgmental,” said Carrie Nightshade, 44, who explained that 
> she no longer felt comfortable letting her children, 12 and 9, play in the 
> park by themselves. “It’s not personal. It’s just not safe.”
> 

*YOU AND YOUR FAMILY'S SAFETY IS ABOUT AS PERSONAL AS IT GETS*


> It’s even less safe now, and yet there is no indication that residents 
> have changed their position about the police. Even at that time, they 
> discovered that their pledge to contact community-activist groups rather 
> than police worked best in theory rather than practice. Community activist 
> groups don’t always answer the phone, for one thing, and aren’t always 
> inclined to respond when they do. As of two weeks ago, though, that 
> message still hadn’t gotten through, nor the point that community 
> activists may not be interested in intervening when violence is being 
> threatened.
> 

SO paying someone else to do the DIRTY WORK is sounding pretty good to
the elite Marxists....


> One man expressed regret for calling 911 after two armed teenagers had 
> pointed a gun at him and demanded his car keys. After first justifying it, 
> Mitchell Erickson told the NYT that it was he who had endangered their 
> lives:
> 

The sick mind of an emasculate elite Marxist.


> Two days after an initial conversation, his position had evolved. “Been 
> thinking more about it,” he wrote in a text message. “I regret calling the 
> police. It was my instinct but I wish it hadn’t been. I put those boys in 
> danger of death by calling the cops.”
> 
> What about the fact that the boys had put his life in danger?

Apparently his memory is NOT long enough to recall that.  Must have been
all the DRUGS he took.

> 
> “Yeah I know and yeah it was scary but the cops didn’t really have much to 
> add after I called them,” he replied. “I haven’t been forced to think like 
> this before. So I would have lost my car. So what? At least no one would 
> have been killed.”
> 

He doesn't know that they might have used that car in a drive by
shooting and killed an 8 year old kid.

> Ahem. Perhaps not that time, but what about the next person those two 
> teenagers point a gun at? How much more will Erickson be willing to give 
> away before thinking that enforcing the law might be a solution? In this 
> case, the question before Powderhorn Park residents is how many children 
> will have to be at risk before they stop hiding from their responsibility 
> and start pressing for effective police reform, not just for themselves 
> but for the whole city.
> 

With his mantra it won't be long before he will be homeless and living
in the park on FREE MEALS and looking for a way to get a car and house
and then he will be cold and hungry and looking for a gun so he won't be
in the park doing drugs and wasting away.

> This is the essential problem inherent in dismantling police departments 
> or demanding a broad disengagement with them. That leaves a vacuum of 
> impunity that encourages violence and crime. Neighborhoods that already 
> have those problems know this well already, which is why those Minneapolis 
> residents think the idea of scaling back or dismantling the police 
> department is “egregious, grotesque, absurd, crazy, ridiculous,” terms 
> used by the NAACP and Urban League rather than the wealthier white 
> liberals in the city. They have had to live with these issues for decades 
> and understand that community policing — which requires more resources and 
> commitment to enforce the law on even minor transgressions — is the 
> correct recipe for keeping people safe. They just want to know that the 
> police understand that too and to stop abusing their power.
> 
> Maybe they’ll learn that lesson quickly. More likely, though, those 
> Powderhorn Park residents with the means to leave will move out because 
> “the neighborhood has changed.”
> 

The irony being that they themselves adopted the ideology that destroyed
their own neighborhood and they'll spread their virus of mental
dysfunction and the resulting dystopia to their new neighborhood and the
process will continue to repeat over and over.

> Two weeks ago, KARE11 reported on the rapid growth of the homeless 
> encampments, and demands for government intervention. Maybe they should 
> have called the cops, eh?

They should just move but then the HOMELESS will simply follow the FREE
FOOD and FREE CARS won't they?




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