Posted on 10/22/2020 4:34:36 PM PDT by rustyweiss74
A group of Minneapolis residents has filed a lawsuit against the city arguing there aren’t enough police officers to keep the people safe.
The lawsuit contends that the city is not providing adequate levels of policing as set out in its own charter.
One former council member, Don Samuels, and his wife argued, according to Fox 9 Minneapolis, that “children can’t go outside right now as violent crimes including shootings, carjackings and murders have increased since the death of George Floyd.”
The council contends that they have maintained the proper level of sworn police officers dictated by the population.
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Aren’t taxes due next month? Just don’t pay.
Rats sure love that “them vs. us” thing don’t they?
I drove through Minneapolistan earlier this week. All the way through on Lake Street. It is unbelievable. It looks like a war zone that has been covered in graffiti.
Why do you keep excerpting your own damn blog? None of it is original material except your own damn picture!
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Minneapolis Residents Demand ‘Law and Order,’ Sue City Over Lack of Police Officers
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A group of Minneapolis residents has filed a lawsuit against the city arguing there aren’t enough police officers to keep the people safe.
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A group of Minneapolis residents has filed a lawsuit against the city arguing there aren’t enough police officers to keep the people safe.
The lawsuit contends that the city is not providing adequate levels of policing as set out in its own charter.
One former council member, Don Samuels, and his wife argued, according to Fox 9 Minneapolis, that “children can’t go outside right now as violent crimes including shootings, carjackings and murders have increased since the death of George Floyd.”
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The council contends that they have maintained the proper level of sworn police officers dictated by the population.
Minneapolis residents are arguing in a lawsuit that there aren’t enough police patrolling the streets right now. https://t.co/bsJetSRkW3
— FOX 9 (@FOX9) October 20, 2020
Minneapolis Police Officers Needed to Restore Law and Order
The lawsuit comes roughly three months after the Minneapolis City Council demonized and voted to defund the city’s police department.
Democrat lawmakers made the Minneapolis Police Department out to be the enemy of the people in the wake of the George Floyd riots.
Officers were accused of brutalizing harmless innocents while the department was called a ‘cancer’ that needed to be cut out.
When this whole thing fails, take note that Congresswoman Ilhan Omar also supports the dismantling of the Minneapolis Police Department. pic.twitter.com/cW3O745oq5
— Benny (@bennyjohnson) June 8, 2020
“I will never cosign on funding a police department that continues to brutalize us,” Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) said to a cheering mob in June.
“And I will never stop saying not only do we need to disinvest in police, but we need to completely dismantle the Minneapolis Police Department.”
In July, the council followed Omar’s lead, taking numerous steps to dismantle the department, including an amendment to remove $1 million from their budget and reallocate it toward hiring “violence interrupters.”
Residents argued that their decisions could be costing people their lives.
“This is like all they are focused on is having a reimagined police department while we’re focused on staying alive,” one petitioner stated.
#NEW: At a hearing earlier today: North Minneapolis residents speak after filing lawsuit against Minneapolis City Council and Mayor. They’re demanding more transparency & for the city to fund and employ enough police officers – as crime rates rise in the area. @kare11 pic.twitter.com/jBLVgePh43
— Charmaine Nero (@CNeroTV) October 19, 2020
The Familiar Refrain
At a meeting last month to address a surge in violent crimes – which Fox News reports include daylight carjackings, robberies, assaults, and shootings – council members noted there had been a precipitous drop in police action.
Ahem… the Minneapolis city council members who pushed to defund the police are wondering where they are during the city’s time of need. Typical Democrats. pic.twitter.com/kTkIU1EJMD
— robjh1: The Conservative Black Cowboy (@robjh1) September 17, 2020
“Residents are asking, ‘Where are the police?’” a confused Jamal Osman, Council Member, asked.
Osman claimed phone calls to the police were going unanswered.
“That is the only public safety option [constituents] have at the moment. MPD. They rely on MPD,” he said. “And they are saying they are nowhere to be seen.”
Now, facing a lawsuit, they’re arguing that the staffing meets city requirements.
Samuels contends that city attorneys “told the judge the lawsuit has no standing because none of the plaintiffs have been hit by gunfire.”
“To get standing we need to take a bullet, right? We’ve seen our neighbors take bullets. We know the 20-year-old, we know the six-month-old who’s in the car when her mom gets shot up,” his wife seethed.
One resident echoed a familiar refrain heard from President Trump on the campaign trail.
“We are here because of people’s safety, community activist Cathy Spann said. “We want law and order. We want reform. But we are in this city to say, enough is enough.”
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Citizens in ALL blue states need to do the same and personally sue all blue state governors. The buck stops with them. Let them beg Soros org to bail them out and break the Soros bank.
I wonder how many of this group suing the city will continue voting Democrat.
If these urban squids want to send a message - vote Trump.
Minneapolis turning red will IMMEDIATELY get the attention of their leftist masters.
Too little. Too late. Your city is a shithole.
For those of us not from the area, Where is Lake Street in relation to the original epicenter of some of the riots looted target, burn liquor store, Wendy’s, auto parts store, police precinct? Have they re-opened at target or begun repairs? Last I saw they were removing damaged items from the store but I have not heard if they intended to re-open it?
Lake Street runs east and west all the way through the city. Towards the east end is the Target that got looted. They are rebuilding and a big sign says opening soon.
The “minority owned business” groveling graffiti is the best.
Gee after 40 years of liberals in charge of Minneapolis the city should be a social utopia. The leadership funded every social program, raised taxes on the “wealthy”, built tens of miles of bike paths, renamed lakes and streets cancel any racist overtones and had chiefs of police representing every minority including LGTQ types, turned public schools into feel good indoctrination centers and pandered to every marginalized group imaginable. Why didn’t this wipe every tear and right every wrong caused by the racist, homophob hillbilly white people?
There was a big sign by the 35W bridge where a lot of the bums live that said MAKE AMERICA INDIGENOUS AGAIN.
Screw you Minneapolis residents....you’ve been voting for this crap for decades.
here’s the FULL article ripped off by the menrec blog hook, line and sinker:
https://www.fox9.com/news/minneapolis-residents-sue-city-over-police-staffing
I have to go North tomorrow, I’ll look for it.
Thanks for the info. Sounds like the entirety of Lake St is bad, with the east end is the worst.
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