Minneapolis is on fire, and I want to restate here what I said earlier elsewhere- the military can accidentally drop a bomb on the wrong target and kill 100 people and call it collateral damage and Americans shrug their shoulders so ask me how many fucks I give that a Target and some liquor stores were looted. Obviously I wish it were not happening but in the big scheme of things so fucking what. Stop letting cops murder people and we’ll worry about Jimmy’s Discount Spirits later.
This is not an isolated incident with the MPD, and things have been simmering for a while up there, and the murder of Floyd, and the nonchalance of those committing, on film, just blew things wide open. So I am not condoning the rioting, I think it is terrible and awful, and while half of me does not understand it, the other half of me sure as hell does. Violence begets violence. Burning a Target makes more sense to me than kneeling on a man’s neck until he is dead for no fucking reason whatsoever.
Additionally, you can thank the prosecutor who went in front of microphones today and pulled this fucking stunt:
NEW: Minnesota prosecutor says video showing George Floyd's death is "terrible" but says there's "other evidence that does not support a criminal charge" pic.twitter.com/X3hzxQJtfe
— BNO News (@BNONews) May 28, 2020
To go in front of the cameras and state they are reviewing additional evidence that the officers should not be charged was tantamount to throwing gas on the fire, and he should be immediately fired. Hearing this no doubt whipped the crowds into and even deeper rage.
And to be clear on this- no other evidence needs to be reviewed in whether or not to determine charges. None. Nothing excuses what we saw on tape. It does not matter what Floyd may have done prior. It does not matter how violently he resisted arrest. Literally nothing he did prior to his murder matters. Because once he is face down, handcuffed, and subdued, there is literally NOTHING that excuses the cops kneeling on his neck using an unauthorized technique and staying there for five minutes as Floyd and the crowd begged for them to let him breathe. That was murder, and that is the ONLY thing that matters. Nothing else is material, particularly when producing a charging document (and as always, IANAL, but this seems pretty fucking obvious).
This prosecutor is either trying to set the stage for lesser charges or jury nullification or a complete and total imbecile or some combination of the three. And he should be removed from the case and removed from his job.
My thuoghts are with the good people of Minneapolis.
Martin
This is turning into a much shittier version of 1968.
Target has had plenty of clout in Minneapolis that they could have steered this situation in a different direction over the last decade, so I agree, I don’t have a ton of sympathy for them here.
My warning about Trump’s dismantling of the rule of law, is that the public finds its own justice. If the courts don’t provide it, they’ll take it with stones and sticks. That’s not a defense for looting, but it’s preventable through good governance.
Raoul
I live here. In the city proper. Been here 25 years. 14 of those were in Longfellow, the epicenter (don’t live there now, but about 4 miles away). Heck, I was president of the Longfellow Community Council for a while (does neighborhood engagement stuff, spends a pittance of City money on local improvements and such).
County Atty Mike Freeman is a shitbag. His agenda is not serving the public. He serves cops.
His decision not to bring those ex-officers in and holding them for questioning (maybe there’s a reason they can’t be charged yet, but they can be brought in. Hell, we keep people on ice for petty suspicion of drugs charges!), that decision is a major contributor to why this city is burning tonight.
Kent
For the life of me, I don’t understand why the DA didn’t just charge this officer straight away. Any trial would likely be years away and he’d likely get out on bail. And the union will pony up for top defense attorneys. But they could at least charge him and get the ball rolling instead of sitting around on their asses and watching their city burn
If they can’t charge him right away, they can at least get the ball rolling rather than sitting on their asses.
CaseyL
This has been a really long time coming. It is not safe to be a POC in this country. POCs might as well be living in wartime Iraq, in terms of their personal safety: leave the house in the morning, not sure if you’ll be coming home. A country that allows that doesn’t deserve to prosper; it deserves what it’s getting in Minneapolis.
Raoul
Also fuck the god damned fire department. Last night residents across the street from an insane six story conflagration had to spray the fronts of their homes with puny garden hoses. Zero rioters in the video of them saving their homes and all their worldly possessions. The newspaper cameraman who filmed it was safe from ‘dangerous looters’ too.
Just zero fire service. None. Gone.
Bastards.
Kent
@Raoul: You think this was some sort of decision from the top brass to keep their fire fighters from responding for ….reasons. Or is this some sort of act of solidarity between rank and file fire fighters and the police?
Raoul
One thing I hope will burn in Hell tonight is Amy Klobuchar’s (long)shot at Veep. She was in the role Mike Freeman is in now. The cop whose knee was the murder weapon was brought to her attention for a violent act. Like Mike, she had a strong tendency to ‘let cops be cops.’
That may have been par for the course back then. But it’s disqualifying for being on the Democratic ticket in 2020. Period.
Mike G
“That evidence being that I’m a cowardly fuck covering my ass who like most DAs in America is gutless at taking on the cops.”
Raoul
@Kent: I don’t honestly know. I’m sure we’ll be told it was because it wasn’t safe for the Fire Dept to be there.
I don’t have reason to think that individual firefighters are bent the way our cops are. But someone made the call to not send fire fighters to the area. And residents/homeowners had to scramble to save their own asses.
It speaks of a decision by higher ups — probably Minneapolis police saying they wouldn’t be able to provide cover for MFD firefighters, even though no rioters/looters were there — to just abandon the idea of protecting innocent neighbors.
CaseyL
Big protest in Louisville, too, Cops broke into a black woman’s house and killed her.
Does anyone know anything about The Action Network’s Louisville Community Bail Fund?
Does anyone know if they’re legit? I might send some dollars their way, to support the protestors there (who are sure to be arrested, and brutalized.)
If you know about a national fund that does this sort of thing, please tell me.
ETA: I don’t know if the ACLU takes on cases like this (though it’s always good to give them money!) – I’m thinking something more immediate, bailing people out of jail, making sure they have competent legal representation, etc.
hilts
Watching Hennepin County attorney Mike Freeman speak, I was reminded of Robert McCulloch the St. Louis County attorney who handled the Michael Brown shooting case. Both of them struck me as gutless morons who were completely in the tank for the police.
Raoul
Trump just declared war on Minneapolis
when the looting starts, the shooting starts
HumboldtBlue
This ain’t 1968.
CaseyL
The Louisville fund looks legit, so I gave them some money. If anyone else wants to:
Louisville Community Bail Fund
Found one for Minneapolis, too:
Minneapolis Freedom Fund
SiubhanDuinne
Trump has weighed in. I don’t trust myself to embed tweets, but here’s his text:
“When the looting starts, the shooting starts.” That’s not at all incendiary //
(Edit: Waves at Raoul @12)
NotMax
Disappointed at the choice of headline. Get the impression you would take umbrage when folks expansively tar the entirety of West Virginia.
scav
Wouldn’t exactly rule out a plan by elements of the Minneapolis PD fan club (oh look, a prosecutor finding evidence that someone killing someone else on camera isn’t criminal — could it just be that blue uniform they’re wearing? — couldn’t be more blatant if he tried) to further enflame response in an attempt to make their uniformed murderers look more reasonable.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@SiubhanDuinne:
Somebody fed him the line. He doesn’t read.
rikyrah
The killer cop had 17 previous complaints lodged against him.
17??
Ruckus
@SiubhanDuinne:
shitforbrains didn’t write that. Either that or he has no idea that George Floyd is black. And even then I’d say he didn’t write that. Even the structure is all wrong for him.
August West
@SiubhanDuinne:
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
When Trump pretends to express sorrow over George Floyd’s murder, people need to remember that this raving neanderthal once told police to stop handling suspects so gently after they’ve been taken into custody and he was greeted with roaring laughter and cheers by the police in the audience.
Ruckus
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
Great minds and all that……
Ukai
Long-time lurker (when John was still a R), first time commenter.
I’ve been living in Minneapolis for 22 years. I’m currently in South Minneapolis, six blocks away from where Floyd was murdered. This unrest (obviously) eclipses any I’ve seen here, more so that what followed after Philando Castile’s shooting.
Like Raoul, I’m also not sorry if Klobuchar’s VP chances are sunk because of this, even before learning about her deciding not to prosecute Chauvin for a previous incident. Remember that Onion article a thousand years ago in March, about Klobuchar becoming mayor of South Bend, Indiana? The last line in that article wasn’t pulled out of thin air.
NotMax
Close friend of Mr. Floyd (NBA player whose name escapes me) was on O’Donnell’s show and stressed that the trajectory the protests have taken is not one to which the George Floyd he knew would have bestowed approval.
Raoul
@rikyrah: Some of which Amy Klobuchar knew about when she was the shitty Mike Freeman of her time. And let slide.
HumboldtBlue
@Ukai:
Thanks for the insight. All the best and safety for you and kin.
John Cole
@NotMax: Hunh?
Raoul
@Ukai: Wow, I hadn’t seen that Onion piece. Also, hello, neighbor! Heck of a time to be introduced, but nice to ‘meet’ you.
Raoul
@John Cole: BTW parts of St Paul are now on fire, so the headline is sadly getting more accurate.
August West
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
Given Trump’s profoundly limited vocabulary, I’m certain he’s mentally incapable of coming up with that line on his own. I’ve heard children who have broader and deeper vocabularies than President Butthurt
h/t https://www.mediaite.com/online/george-conway-mocks-trump-for-statement-that-uses-very-six-times-in-six-sentences-his-vocabulary-is-only-a-couple-hundred-words/
Villago Delenda Est
That prosecutor should not only be fired, he should share a cell with the cop who “took a knee” on George Floyd’s neck.
lumpkin
The prosecutor is deliberately provoking violence by failing to act and prematurely announcing a foregone conclusion because he knows that many people will see black people rioting and conclude that black man George Floyd got what he deserved. The press will facilitate this.
Villago Delenda Est
@Ruckus: Probably Grima Scavino or George “Reinhard Heydrich cosplay” Miller.
lige
The cops started the riot in the first place. Even though it was disgusting to witness the way they handled the bullshit COVID protests at the state capitol’s is the way to handle things when people are in a dangerous mood. Let them do their thing and gently guide them away from doing any harm. Instead you get confrontation and tear gas – it’s all on them.
Villago Delenda Est
@lige: Well, SOP with wypipo whiny ass titty babies is to treat them with kid gloves.
Those darkies, on the other hand, get the fist in an iron gauntlet.
Mandalay
@Raoul:
This. Her initial tweet on Tuesday was horrendous. She didn’t mention the victim by name, and carefully avoided using the words “murder” and “police” in her statement. And prefixing it with “My statement on the officer-involved death in Minneapolis:” was dumb beyond belief. She’s our equivalent of Susan Collins, and I’m sure she’s deeply troubled about it all.
Even if you want to argue that her heart is in the right place (which is questionable), and she just chose her words poorly, she still failed massively.
She knew she was in the spotlight for perceived past failures with her handling of black issues, and this was a golden opportunity to address that. All she did was reinforce the negative perceptions that she doesn’t really care at all.
Ukai
@HumboldtBlue: Thanks, I appreciate that.
I wonder if the mainstream media will track a couple of things:
I’m prepared to be disappointed.
Ukai
@Raoul: Nice to ‘meet’ you too. Stay safe, man.
Ian R
@lige: Not just the riot, but also the vandalism: https://twitter.com/dyllyp/status/1266166402521522176
Raoul
@lige: Yeah, this is what I had to say late in the evening on May 24, the first night of protest, when it was pretty obvious the cops bum-rushed the protesters, were using flash bombs, tons of tear gas, and foam bullets:
This is an abject failure by Mayor Frey, Chief Arradondo, Insp. Sean McGinty who commands the 3rd Precinct, Hennepin Atty Mike Freeman, as well as many other elected and badged officials.
MPD is a dangerous occupying force, not an agency that “Protects and Serves”.
The inability to safety manage this protest, to not anticipate the pent up anger, grief and rage of a city that has not seen nearly enough justice or accountability – it is massive political and moral failure.
—
It has gone downhill at a 90 degree angle since then. But it started with cops. They were furious that the four fellows got fired. They’d never seen that sort of rapid (if partial) accountability here before. They flipped OUT.
JWR
Great post, Mr. Cole!
All I have to say about this case is what I told people about the Rodney King case way back then, which was that I do not care what RK did before the start of the video, because there is absolutely no reason to beat, (and beat and beat and beat), a subdued suspect. None whatsoever!
oatler.
Saw the James Lileks blog for Friday and he SO wants it to be the fault of evil hippies. Same as when they stole his lunch money, which he has never forgotten or forgiven.
lige
@Villago Delenda Est: Totally – though I’ve witnessed the same thing when I was a student in Eugene in the late 90’s. There was a series of riots caused by over zealous shutting down of parties by the cops and then when everyone would gather out on the streets since there was nowhere to congregate the police would move in with riot tactics to disperse. Lots of tear gas and riot shields. And pretty much all all white people. And the stupidest possible reason for conflict. It’s hard to know where the professional malpractice ends and the racism begins.
JWR
@Kent:
It would seem that violent protesters are the goal of this monster.
Felanius Kootea
@lumpkin: The amazing thing for me is how diverse the crowd in Minneapolis is. It’s definitely not just black people protesting, for anyone who has eyes.
debit
I work just a few blocks south of the 3rd Precinct. On my way in Thursday morning I saw the columns of smoke from Lake Street and before I left, I heard the news helicopters overhead.
I don’t have anything pithy or profound to say, just that it’s 1:32 in the morning and I’m sick and sad and outraged. My home neighborhood is quiet, but I can’t sleep. I am just heartsick.
Eural Joiner
Wow, check out the live feed from Unicorn Riot on YouTube. I was supposed to go to bed hours ago but it’s just crazy on the streets.
Eural Joiner
Emerald
@HumboldtBlue: Reminds me more of 1965. Watts riots.
That was my immediate thought when I saw the coverage. We’ve been here before.
rikyrah
Amir Khalid
@rikyrah:
The plot thickens.
Dan B
I heard about the police planting provocateurs in the crowd and wondered if it was true. There seems to be solid evidence, thanks to camera phones, that it’s probably true. I remember the same in Chicago in ’69 and ’70. Without cameras it was impossible to prove. So the police on the US are using CIA techniques to make POC look like criminals.
This shit is frightening.
Adam Lang
Wonder if the Russia bots are encouraging their “allies” to go out and start their civil war in response to this. Would be pretty surprised if they weren’t, actually. Seems like a golden opportunity for them.
J R in WV
This reminds me of the riots of 1968… Martin Luther King was shot down, Bobby Kennedy was shot down, then the Democratic Convention was held in Chicago, with a pre-existing state of hostiliity between the police (well know for busting heads for their Mayor Dailey, or whatever he told them to do, they would do it) and the liberal progressive activists, some of whom were intending to be delegates for Bobby Kennedy, lost those seats in the convention, came to Chicago to try to get an Anti-war plank in the party documents. That wasn’t going to happen with conservative Deomcrats and the Dixicrats pushing to support Lyndon and his platform.
Between 2 or 3 assassinations of prominent members of political organizations, Civil Rights leadership shot down like a prize steer, Bobby Kennedy, the smartest and most moral of all the Kennedy brothers, he would have been the best Presidential candidate of all of the Kennedy boys, shot the evening he cswon the California primary after making a pretty good victory speech. God forbid! the leading Democratic candidate should be against LBJ’s futile war in Vietnam.
The national guard was called out for lots of little protests. If anyone ignored the hysterical commands of a junior officer, next step was always step up the militarianism on the scene, blow thru a shit loac of CS gas into the least combative parts of the crowd,
I was a freshman, would be draft age the middle of my sophomore year. Lots of people didn’t thing there would be an election conducted that people would accept as fair and legal. Nixon won over V P Humphrey, with lots of conservative support, and help from the North Vietnam diplomats in Paris where the Republican candidate told the Noorth Vietnamese negotiators that Nixon wanted peace and a negotiated end to the conflict, and the North Vietnam delegation should hold off from making an agreement with LBJ and HHH when a better deal would come friom the GOP right after the election dust setteled.
Of course, there was also old fashioned ratfucking by the Nixon team during the election season, and some junior folks went to jail for that. Between treasonous work with the enemy holding our embassy staff, illegal breakins to a wide variety of places where info on Democratic people could be stolen, you can’t call it a free or fair election.
The Chicago convention riots were police riots, completely. They were free to attack party organizers, alternate delegates, the free press reporters, etc… using armed monted police officers acting as cavalry. CD gas, just recently approved for use in actual combat. And lots of people weren’t sure Humphrey would atually be a big difference between LBJ and Nixon.
By the time Nixon was installed, I was 5 weeks away from enlisting into the Navy to avoid being drafted at the point of a gun. Draftees went striaight into the infantry or the Marines, pretty much.
I was still too young to vote either way.
JWR
“Weakness is pointing the finger at someone else during a time of crisis.”
Yep, that’s our Trump. That’s exactly how he’s dealt with the pandemic: from a point of weakness. So I hope that one leaves a mark.
(Hey, the text em’d above would be a great addition to the rotating taglines.)
Kathleen
@Martin: I’ve been thinking the same thing. I also remember the Kerner Commission Report published in 1968 which stated:
http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/6545/
JWR
I’m beginning to think Minneapolis might not be a very nice place to be while being Black. From yesterday, a Mr. “Karen”:
Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes
@CaseyL:
I’m a Louisville lawyer; my office is two blocks north of the riot site. I’ve seen a few internet references to this bail fund but am suspicious; our judges have been getting away from cash bail for a couple of years now, much to the chagrin of RWNJs and the police.
It would be best to wait on that.
Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes
@Raoul:
If he sends in the guard over the objection of a local elected official, I’d recommend some good old-fashioned armor-piercing .30-06 to any soul who wants to send a message back to troops who would occupy a community.
I’m sure the freedom loving, armed 3%ers would have the backs of people resisting tyranny, right?
Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes
@lige:
Can’t have a riot without cops.
Sadly, the imagery of upset black people acting on pent up rage weighs heavily upon the furrowed brows of white women over 45, and steers their votes toward tough-sounding men who would restore civic order and make things safe for their children and grandchildren. It’s so dangerous to go to more dense aspects of the urban core, even to some of those cute shops. They feel for those people, and someone should do something, but my lands, violence isn’t the answer because Dr. King…..
Laura Too
Morning neighbors, looks like I have a few. I’m in Longfellow, 4 houses down from Peace Coffee, 2 1/2 blocks from the Precinct. I’m on night watch so our house doesn’t burn and no neighbor dies. Unicorn Riot has been my salvation. I can hear all he bangs and a short delay later see what it is. It is scary, I haven’t been through this before. We haven’t been able to breathe well since yesterday. Smoke and teargas. Mike Freeman needs to be brought up on charges. He allowed this to happen so he and the racist Bob Kroll can point and say “see, we told you those people are bad”. We tried to get him out, had a real decent guy in in Mark Hasse but the suburbanites wouldn’t go for him. I spent the morning going around to my friends businesses. We are all just sick over this but akso understand that white people need to start stepping up. And if it turns out that that St. Paul cop is the one that started this he should get life.
Laura Too
@Kathleen: The saddest part of this is that South Minneapolis is one of the most diverse places in the city. They are burning minority owned businesses and houses. I’d like to see them move out to the suburbs tonight.
Ukai
@Laura Too: Thanks for pitching in and watching out for your turf. Stay safe.
I’m dreading the effect on MN’s COVID-19 cases resulting from this week’s events.
Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes
@Laura Too:
And if it turns out that that St. Paul cop is the one that started this he should get life.
Too many police forces have 3%ers on them. Here in Louisville, an internal city police force (municipal boundaries entirely surrounded by Louisville) cruiser got spotted with a 3%er bumper sticker. It’s been removed but the officer hasn’t.
Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes
@Laura Too:
Yup – riot where it hits the furrowed brows of well-off white people.
Hard to pull off the organization without blue finding out – I learned that trying to arrange a protest at McConnell’s church.
Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes
Louisville will be ugly tonight – the weather is supposed to be amazing. I may slip in to my office this morning to get cash out of my lockbox and to manually trigger a computer backup – my building is a sitting duck for getting lit up.
Laura Too
The cops knew what they were doing. They waited for almost dark the first night and started with flash grenades, rubber bullets and tear gas. Second night was the same pattern and tonight started the same way. Huge conflagration and then they step back. They are burning vehicles and bars off of the Lake Street area. Unicorn Riot said the Hex is gone. (For the not locals, an iconic bar that had great bands in the 80’s) Thing is, our neighborhoods are on our own. We won’t get police or fire service here, I heard 911 isn’t even taking calls. We have the houses on our block covered and I’m sure we aren’t the only ones, but none of us want that and certainly don’t want to be put in that position. I am trying to make sunup as my husband has to work so he’s sleeping. Scary place to be.
cliosfanboy
@J R in WV: Nixons deal was with SOUTH Vietnam not the North.
Ian R
@Laura Too: Well yes. Why do you think the racist cop (but I repeat myself) agent provocateur started breaking things there? Makes the rioters (who were just protestors, until the cops got involved) look bad and destroys what little wealth they’ve been able to accumulate.
Laura Too
@Ukai: Thanks! Yeah, I was thinking the same thing. The first night we all wore masks and sociially distanced. Now, not so much. Unicorn is down and something just blew up. Lots of what sounded like actual gun fire.
Keith P.
Wow, Trump tweeted out “when the looting starts, the shooting starts”, so Twitter wrapped the tweet in a warning “his Tweet violated the Twitter Rules about glorifying violence. However, Twitter has determined that it may be in the public’s interest for the Tweet to remain accessible.” Gonna be an interesting Friday (I honestly thought we’d be seeing riots a month into COVID, so hopefully that doesn’t magnify it or help lead to more riots)
Warblewarble
Minnesota burning, tRump brings fuel. Fixed.
Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes
@Keith P.:
He’s gonna lose what’s left of his shit on that.
Dorsey just needs to pull the plug on the account, and force him to do the thing he really wants – to use the special Presidential Push Notification tool and send texts to every cellphone in the country.
Ladyraxterinok
@Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes:
After OJ Simpson verdict heard report on NPR—white woman said basically—well we’re just done…we’ve done everything for ‘them’ and this is how they repay us! We sure won’t do anything for them anymore!’
Laura Too
They burned one of the most beautiful places on earth, please google Gandhi Mahal,
prostratedragon
@rikyrah: And a capital murder somehow gets even uglier.
@Dan B: That sort of thing goes back at least to the Haymarket, where it’s never been shown that demonstrators threw the bomb.
raven
@Dan B: Google Tommy the Traveler
Croaker
This sucks. Mike Freeman and Bob Kroll lit the match. Amy Klobuchar carried the torch. Dereck Chauvin’s killing his coworker George Floyd was the fuel.
People are wrong on Trump’s tweets. He is very very very very very very very incapable its Dan Scavino his golf club manager who does most of it.
In the end it’s all the same group of racist a holes who want to cause this.
VOTE
https://amp.kstp.com/articles/george-floyd-fired-officer-overlapped-security-shifts-at-south-minneapolis-club-may-28-2020-5743990.html?__twitter_impression=true
Kathleen
@Laura Too: I hear you. Please stay safe. I lived in St Paul during my high school years so I’ve always felt a connection to the Twin Cities. I’m so saddened by the treatment of African Americans there and all over the country. This has to stop.
sherparick
@Kent: Because in Freeman thought process he and the cops are part of same tribe and he sees them and himself as part of system that goal is not “justice” but to “control” the Black population of Minnesota. I will now guess at what those four officers thought they were doing. I don’t they intended to kill George, but they decided to send a message to everyone watching on that corner “don’t fuck with us, or we will make you suffer;” that “we have the power, and no one will believe your side if we fuck with you.” It all goes back to the First Principle of Reaction, “that there is a group that the law protects but does not bind, and a group (or groups) that the law binds, but does not protect.” Freeman, probably at unconscious level, sees the police in that first group, and George Floyd and the rest of the Black, Hispanic, and poor white population of Minneapolis as part of the second group. For the background: https://www.amazon.com/Occupied-Territory-Policing-Chicago-Politics/dp/1469649594
Don K
I realized last night that I’ve now reached pissed-offness levels I haven’t seen in myself since 1968-1972. It took copious levels of weed smoking beginning in 1972 for me to finally mellow out, so I may have to start again.
dnfree
@J R in WV: we were just moving from a suburb to the south side of Chicago the day of the 1968 convention police riots, or we would probably have been there. My husband was just starting graduate school. Your description is very accurate. And don’t forget mayor Daley’s famous statement that “The police are not there to create disorder. The police are there to preserve disorder.” (Paraphrased)
Raoul
Yes. He’s on team MPD, not team citizens of Hennepin County. At least we got rid of that crapcanoe Sheriff Stanek last cycle. I don’t give a shit if Freeman is nominally a Democrat. He’s a police crony.
Cheryl from Maryland
@Raoul: Agreed. Her cover is that she sent those cases to the grand jury, which did not return an indictment. Bullshit. If the prosecutor wants an indictment, there will be an indictment. She punted and punted hard in favor of the police.