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More Than 90 People Have Been Shot In Minneapolis In The Past Month

Jim_S

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More Than 90 People Have Been Shot In Minneapolis In The Past Month
Posted at 4:30 pm on June 21, 2020 by Cam Edwards

https://bearingarms.com/cam-e/2020/06/21/more-than-90-people-shot-minneapolis-past-month/

While Minneapolis City Council members are still determined to abolish the city’s police force, residents may be having some second thoughts after a huge spike in the number of shootings in the city. On Saturday evening, twelve people were shot, one fatally, in an exchange of gunfire between multiple individuals in the city’s Uptown neighborhood.

The violence began about 12:37 a.m. Sunday, when police responded to reports of gunfire during a large gathering of people in the 2900 block of Hennepin Avenue, according to police spokesman John Elder. He said officers arrived to find multiple victims and learned that others had left the scene in “private vehicles.”

Several ambulances were summoned to the scene to care for the wounded. He said that detectives had been assigned to investigate the case, but no arrests had been made as of Sunday morning.

A Facebook Live video posted by K.G. Wilson, a longtime peace activist, showed the shooting’s chaotic aftermath, with bystanders tending to several victims sitting on a curb in the popular entertainment district on the city’s South Side. The scene was awash in flashing blue and red lights. At one point in the footage, a police officer and a bystander are seen carrying an injured person to a waiting ambulance.

According to the Star-Tribune newspaper, 19 people have been injured or killed in shootings in the city since Saturday afternoon, and more than 90 people have been shot in Minneapolis since May 26th. Earlier this month, seven people were shot during a fight that started in a north Minneapolis bar before the crowd took to the street outside.

Minneapolis police spokesman John Elder has dismissed allegations that the police force isn’t acting as proactively as it has in the past, telling reporters earlier this week that “anybody would think that there is a stand-down order or some sort of work stoppage, that is patently false.”

It may be false, but isn’t that what the City Council is asking for? Politicians in the city have been proclaiming that that the cure of law enforcement is worse than the disease of violent crime, and have promised that as policing disappears, peace will be restored to the city’s streets.

Instead, what we’re witnessing in Minneapolis and other deep-blue Democrat-controlled cities around the country is that criminals feel emboldened now that politicians have declared police officers to be the biggest threat to law-and-order. I’ve written in the past that I’m in favor of certain policing reforms like ending “no-knock” raids and requiring body-worn cameras, but there’s a big difference between undertaking reforms and gutting departments or “re-imagining policing.” As long as cops, not violent criminals, are seeing by politicians to be the biggest threat to public safety, expect the chaos on the streets of these cities to continue to ramp up through the long, hot summer months ahead of us.
 

FrancSevin

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When the police no longer arrive when called, and citizens must protect themselves and their property, the possible punishment for every crime could be the death penalty.

Yeah, more people will be shot.
 

Bannedjoe

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When the police no longer arrive when called, and citizens must protect themselves and their property, the possible punishment for every crime could be the death penalty.

Yeah, more people will be shot.

There are possible alternatives, but who's going to tie someone up and imprison them until law and order is restored.
You could just beat them and let them go, but you know they'll be back.

For the most part, cops tend to show up after the fact, to make reports, and haul someone away. Sometimes it's the bad guy, other times by some twist of fate, it's the good guy.

The self administered death penalty levels the playing field quite a bit.
Sure you might be shot breaking in, or looting someone's home,.
But in this game of chance, you might end up dead just stealing gas out of someone's car, or walking off with their lawn mower.

If law is left to the individual, and no one is going to come follow up on extinguished perps, it's quite possible that in the end, criminal behaviour might actually drop, especially if they know there's no chance of beating charges in a courtroom, and any crime no matter how petty, might end with lead poisoning.

You might detect an overzealous attitude in my thoughts on people who loot and steal.
Let me touch on that.

While we owned the R, it would have been two hours of commuting each way, so we plopped a mobile home on the property there.
Running the business was truly 24/7, especially a BBQ joint.
We fed people all day from the previous night's cooking, then had to cook again for the next day.

So going up to our home in the hills happened very little, which is to say hardly at all.

At one point, we had a chance to come home for awhile.

When we got there, the place was completely trashed.
Everything of any value whatsoever was gone.
Everything.
They left all the doors open.
Mice, rats, bugs, bats, birds, you name it, all moved into the house.
Fortunately, the walls were cinder block.

We had to collect what little was left behind, and throw everything else in a big hole.
I then had to powerwash the entire inside of the house.

Pictures, important documents, all our clothing ruined by rodents.

We were completely devastated.

So needless to say, I have a real fucking attitude when it comes to thieves.
I will 86 anyone who comes here to steal.
They will be in a hole faster than you can blink, and no one will find them.
 
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