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Also, I doubt that the city will burn as the "summer of love" violence we saw was instigated by political activists and designed to hurt Trump and the GOP at the ballot box. They've achieved their goal, so no need to burn things down anymore.
This is a bizarrely conspiratorial take on what happened in Minneapolis after George Floyd that could only be expressed by a hyper-partisan. The actions in Minneapolis after George Floyd was killed were a spontaneous outpouring of rage from the community after a senseless killing. They were not orchestrated by any group towards a political agenda. I know this because I live here. People were angry, they didn't have to be prodded out into the streets. Of course after the protests many partisans on both the right and left tried to manipulate the narrative to advance their agenda but that had nothing to do with the actual events.
If you are NOT a criminal and someone kicks in your door, your first instinct is self-protection. And then the cops shoot you when they are in the wrong. No-Knock warrants should be illegal, period. Too many times they have been at the wrong house or had the wrong information.
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Worth noting deep blue cities like Minneapolis seem to do no better at preventing excessive police force than more moderate and even GOP areas. Twin Cities metro has had some of the worst examples of the past decade.
This is a bizarrely conspiratorial take on what happened in Minneapolis after George Floyd that could only be expressed by a hyper-partisan. The actions in Minneapolis after George Floyd was killed were a spontaneous outpouring of rage from the community after a senseless killing. They were not orchestrated by any group towards a political agenda. I know this because I live here. People were angry, they didn't have to be prodded out into the streets. Of course after the protests many partisans on both the right and left tried to manipulate the narrative to advance their agenda but that had nothing to do with the actual events.
Nope. It comes from watching the left engage in hyper partisan "protest" movements over the years. George Floyd protests were spontaneous in some sense, but the much of the prolonged nature of them were called upon and encouraged by leftist politicians and activists who tried to use things for their own sick partisan agenda. They actively encouraged and called people to take to the streets to protest "systemic racism," and during the middle or a raging pandemic mind you that they were simultaneously shaming right wing protesters over lockdown conditions over (I recall language along the lines of right wing protesters not caring if grandma/grandpa dies, etc.).
And it went beyond George Floyd. Minneapolis burned for way more causes than George Floyd. Floyd was the catalyst in this regard, but "activists" added fuel to the fire for other issues as well.
Is it any wonder why these same political types have not been calling for people to take to the streets over this and other issues since Biden-Harris took over?
But, again, when you look at the actual history of the left over these "protest" movements (from the anti-war protests to the BLM/Antifa riots), what I wrote becomes clearer. I've seen far too much to give leftists the benefit of the doubt over this issue.
When they opened the door they shouted "Police! Get your hands up!", etc.
Looks like a justified shoot to me. <shrug>
So some thug kicks your door in at 0300 and yells "police!" And you have a gun and can't see who it is. Do you trust someone who kicked your door in at 3am?
No-knock is damn bad policy. The sooner gone, the better.
Worth noting deep blue cities like Minneapolis seem to do no better at preventing excessive police force than more moderate and even GOP areas. Twin Cities metro has had some of the worst examples of the past decade.
It has been well known for a long time, I’m talking 40 years that their cops are terrible. Back when the Vikings moved from the Met Stadium in Bloomington to the Metrodome in Minneapolis it was bad. Some friends and myself went to the opening game and got our little grille out and our cooler of beer to do a little tailgating. Minneapolis cops pull up, kick our grille over and cuss at us and tell us they aren’t putting up with us tailgating. One guy had his hand on his baton like they were going to beat us too. We were 20 years old and didn’t talk back. They were really bad, I had never seen anything like that. I can’t imagine what black people were dealing with back then from them.
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