Posted on 10/04/2021 3:56:04 PM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo
A Minneapolis community is looking for answers tonight after another person is murdered, and young people want a seat at the table when discussing solutions.
Officers were called to the scene on Aldrich Avenue Friday night after reports of gunfire. They found a man shot outside of a home who was taken to a hospital and later died. On Saturday the Minneapolis police chief Medaria Arradondo turned to the community to help stop the violence.
“The truth is we got too many people dying in our city,” said Arradondo.
The police chief talked to a group of young people to allow their input on community violence, public safety and police reform.
“I’m terrified about what’s going on in our city because I see a conversation around public safety, but yet I do not see enough of our faces in that conversation,” said Young People Task Force Co-chair Al Flowers Jr.
Flowers Jr. led the charge in getting his peers, between the ages of 13 to 28, to speak up and out about what’s not happening in their community. The biggest concern for members of the Task Force is their voices are not being heard.
“We want to be able to come up with solutions and come up with preventative measures so that we can help be part of the solution, so that we can help change the narrative of what’s going on in this city,” said Flowers Jr.
The young people’s task force is an arm of the Unity in Community Mediation Team that reignited a memorandum of agreement signed back in 2003. The agreement covers accountability of officers, complaints and discipline process, use of force, and diversifying the workforce.
Their group said they want to see more involvement, mentorship from elders, and help to establish a community center where young people can go instead of the streets.
“We got to get to the root of the problem as to why as I stand before you at Shiloh [Temple] and we have a $180,000 dollar crime stopper reward for three babies and we don’t have anybody in custody,” said Arradondo.
The police chief believes the community must work together with police to address issues that are directly impacting everyone.
“85% of the victims of gunshot violence look like us, also 85% of the people who are perpetrating those crimes look like us. So we can continue and we must have the conversation about police accountability and I have to lead that charge on that,” said Arradondo. “But I’m telling you now, the biggest threat to public safety in our city, specifically in the African American community, it ain’t somebody who is wearing this uniform.”
The young people said they know many of the victims and some of the perpetrators of violence, but they want other youth to help be the change the community needs.
“Speak up about police brutality, systematic racism, and if you see crime happening speak up. Don’t be afraid to tell what happened because we need to catch those people who do the crimes,” said 13-year-old task force member LaZya Smith.
The shooting on Friday evening was Minneapolis’s 73rd homicide this year.
And now we are being lectured by a 13 year old member of this "task force" to "Speak up about police brutality, systematic (systemic? 13 year olds are always the smartest people in the room) racism.
May I suggest, as an answer to violent crime in Minneapolis, stop and frisk.
It worked for Rudy.
This little girl would make Greta T. so proud.
I thought we strive for “adults in the room”????
Yes, adults in the room. The people who are violent will be sent to their room, no tv, no phone, and no dessert to think about their actions for a few hours.
Oh great. More gibmedats. That’ll fix everything.
The “adults” are too occupied trying to defund and eliminate the police.
Task force is bureaucratic BS for doing nothing and feeling good about it.
All political showmanship.
Defund the police chief.
The chief is actually a good guy. He’s trying his best to come up with something, anything that will help keep the city council from further ham stringing the MPD. The council can’t seem to understand that violent crime in Minneapolis will skyrocket 5 minutes after they get their way defunding the police and bringing in negotiators and social workers to be the crime fighters.
If the council actually gets all their wishes, I predict that the chief resigns the next day.
““Speak up about police brutality, systematic racism, and if you see crime happening speak up. Don’t be afraid to tell what happened because we need to catch those people who do the crimes,” said 13-year-old task force member LaZya Smith.”
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NO wonder Minn. is an FD up city. You have 13-year old “leaders” whose priority is racism over shootings and murders.
“Officers were called to the scene on Aldrich Avenue Friday night after reports of gunfire:
Wait what?? There are still cops in Minneapolis?
Oh, and did you know that one of Keith Ellison’s kids is on the city council and is the main driving force behind the defund the police movement?
What if they just STOP committing Crimes? Wouldn’t that help?
Yep. The bangers are just licking their chops.
I’m amazed that an amount of the invited group (13 through 17) is the same group that is not held responsible for their actions as adults yet their opinion is treated the same with, maybe, an eighth grade education. I’ve never heard of a Rhodes Scholar at that level. I guess the determination by liberals that they can make decisions on abortion and birth control qualifies for adult capacity?
wy69
A related story coming out of Montgomery County, MD today. This DC suburb school system has a problem. It seems there’s a Tik Tok campaign to encourage violence among teens, and this has resulted in many fights at schools there. The district no longer has cops in the schools, so they decided to hire 50 social workers to solve the problem.
Nice.
Let me know how it works out.
Minneapolis...yeah...the city where the criminally incompetent Somali police officer murdered an Australian tourist...and not one training officer or sergeant shares a cell with him for providing false statements on government documents.
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