Posted on 11/07/2014 6:37:07 PM PST by george76
Minneapolis Mayor Betsy Hodges posing with a convicted felon while flashing a known gang sign.
The man in the photo is a twice-convicted felon for drug selling and possession and illegal possession of a firearm. He is currently sentenced to five years at the St. Cloud Correctional Facility, with the prison term stayed for three years while he is under supervised probation until 2016. If he violates terms of his probation during that time, he will serve the five years behind bars.
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Retired Minneapolis police officer Michael Quinn, who also managed the department's Internal Affairs Unit, says the photo is "disappointing because it puts police officers at risk."
When asked to respond to the mayor's statement that she is just "pointing at him," he said, "She can't be that naive. I cannot imagine."
"She is legitimizing these people. She is legitimizing gangs who are killing our children in Minneapolis and I just can't believe it. It hurts," Quinn said.
Quinn says law enforcement agencies are "going to be pissed about this. They're going to be angry, and they should be."
(Excerpt) Read more at kstp.com ...
I used to think frigid weather flushed a lot of the bad folks out because it takes more effort to exist there.
But Minnesota is proving me wrong...
Kris Jenner is jealous.
She be jus’ keepin’ it real fo’ da shawties! Down wid da swirl like a mutha——a! Why da po-leece be trippin on her an’ thangs?
Idiot
Well, she looks as dumb as a bag of doorknobs. She probably had no clue what she was doing. She deserves all the scorn she gets for it.
Hope the next time one of these creeps rapes a woman .... the victim is not someone who condones their lifestyle ...
Man...check out the comments at the bottom of the story. I’m starting to see how Al Franken got re-elected so easily. Wow, nutter-butter kookfest!
(And yes, I know not all Minnesotans are nutburgers. Lots of good folks there.)
Besides Mark Dayton, Al Franken, Amy Klobuchar, and the rest of the liberal socialists, the Minneapolis mayor is just another reason to not live in the blue Gopher State.
Ur good @ this...
Geez, that’s disturbing...
Let a six year old do that in school, and he’ll be suspended and labeled a potentially dangerous sociopath.
illegal possession of a firearm
first, here I thought Democrats hated guns but she’s posing with a felon convicted for illegal possesion of one. Hypocrisy much.
second, she must be a Democrat since party affailition isn’t mentioned prominently.
Utter moron.
I guess I’ve lived a sheltered life. I didn’t know a finger point was a gang sign. When I was in high school, in the ‘70s, we all pointed like that in photos, usually pointing at our friends.
I had to move here a few years ago, and am gob-smacked at how clueless most Minnesotans actually are.
They want to be “nice” more than anything else, and they apparently do not think beyond what will make them look and sound “nice” to their neighbors. They avoid any discussion of “controversial” issues, and just want to be “neighborly and kind”.
Maybe the harsh winters here make them more concerned about basic survival, so they are afraid of thinking anything that might disturb the “meme” of “caring”. They are terrified of saying anything that could be interpreted as unkind, divisive, or controversial. They ignore the consequences of policies, as they want to “get along” and be seen as “good”.
Did you know the state bird is the loon?
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