Posted on 09/15/2020 10:54:45 AM PDT by bitt
Edina, Minnesota, is an elite suburb that formerly had one of the most outstanding public school districts in the country. That was before Edina’s school system went “woke” and began prioritizing indoctrination over education. In recent years, Edina’s schools have slipped badly in objective test measurements.
This coincides with the city’s transformation from a Republican bastion, as recently as 25 years ago, to a deep-blue outpost of progressivism. How is that working out for Edina? In addition to the decline of the town’s schools, crime has arrived. As law enforcement has collapsed following the George Floyd riots–a development that was applauded by many, likely most, Edina residents–the chickens are coming home to roost. So we see news of carjackings:
According to the Edina Police Department, around 4:34 p.m. the driver of a Chevrolet Equinox reported his vehicle — which is owned by the driver’s employer — had been stolen in the 4600 block of Arden Avenue in Edina. He said the suspect approached the vehicle and told him to get out. The suspect then drove off in the car.
Edina police officers found the vehicle, but the suspect would not stop. The suspect then led eight Edina squad cars and two Richfield squad cars on a chase, police said. Minnesota State Patrol troopers monitored the situation from a helicopter.
Police say the chase ended with a crash at Hazelton Road and France Avenue after Edina police executed a pit maneuver.
Carjackings in the middle of the afternoon are, to put it mildly, a new development. But not a unique one. From NextDoor:
Hit and run. My son was hit and run by a vehicle that was running 55 mph on a 25 mph speed limit. The accident happened yesterday at the intersection of 70th & France. Two guys were in the vehicle and ran a red light. Thank God my son is fine, able to get off his car in one piece & coherent. The two guys fled off the scene. No matter how careful you are on the road there are crazy drivers around that do not care. With all the cameras in that intersection, I hope those two will get caught. Stay safe everyone!
Life-threatening crime in elite suburbs like Edina is a new phenomenon, but residents had better get used to it if they continue to support BLM and other anti-law enforcement causes. What do they think is going to happen if law enforcement is dismantled?
The stark choice between law and order and violent crime is on the ballot in November. Frankly, I suspect that a majority of Edina residents are too far gone to make a rational decision. One hopes that is not the case in most suburbs across the country.
UPDATE: From bad to worse–now it is a shooting in the parking lot of Fairview Southdale Hospital, an hour and a half ago:
Fairview Southdale Hospital is under lockdown Monday night while police search for a shooting suspect.
According to the city of Edina, police were called just before 8:55 p.m. on the report of a shooting in the hospital parking lot.
City of Edina, MN @EdinaMN · 15h M Health Fairview Southdale Hospital, 6401 France Ave. S., and the buildings surrounding it are on lockdown while police look for a suspect in a shooting there earlier this evening. At 8:54 p.m., the Edina Police Department received calls of a shooting in the hospital 6 91 52
City of Edina, MN @EdinaMN · 15h hospital parking lot. The suspect fled the scene. The victim, who is being treated, was able to give officers a description of the suspect. Those in the area are urged to exercise caution and remain in their homes. Anyone with info. should contact @EdinaPolice at 952-826-1600.
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Nice to know the victim was able to give a description of the shooter. What was it?
The suspect fled the scene before police arrived. The victim was able to provide officers wit ha description of the suspect.
Anyone with information is asked to contact the Edina Police Department at 952-826-1600.
Once again, they tell us they have a description of the suspect, but won’t tell us what it is. Which makes it less likely that anyone will have information so as to call the police.
Just another day in what used to be something close to paradise.
MORE: The victim reportedly is a doctor who was shot in the head in the hospital’s parking ramp.
ALSO: The Star Tribune cites “a source” for its report that “the victim was a doctor who was robbed at gunpoint.”
I’ll Take “Refugee Resettlement and Section 8 Housing” for $1000, Alex.
I was in that area and caught the tail end of it.
I talked to a woman there who explained to me why there was a car laying on its side in the middle of busy France Avenue.
She lives in Edina too and told me that her daughter’s care had been stolen and used as a temporary cookhouse for making drugs before it was abandoned. After it was recovered and returned to her, she was looking for her debit card. She reached between the seats and was stuck by a dirty needle.
Initial lab tests show that she’s fine but she’ll need to have follow-up tests for HIV, hepatitis, etc. for some time now.
The woman also told me (I guess she heard it from the police) that Edina is one of the great places for auto thefts now.
Any of the counties making up the Met Council have been infected by the wokeness virus, and this has been going on for some time. The mentality in the suburbs is to slavishly conform to the latest fads, and this BLM nonsense is one of them. It’s part of the “stuck in junior high” culture. Even Eagan, which was another conservative area, has flipped. I lived there between 2001 and 2011, left to return to Texas.
Liberals are not only stupid, they are incomphehensively stupid. Once Edina is turned into a total $#*+hole, those who can afford to move will do so and take their idiotic voting habits with them.
Those who can't will just have to suffer.
Seriously, I'm glad that I live in a neighborhood where ever 3rd house or so has a Trump sign in their yard. I can't comprehend the tiny handful of idiots who have Biden signs planted. What are they thinking?
Edina was a nice place.
People have lost their minds. I don’t understand how virtue signalling and woke PC brainwashing makes you vote against your own safety, survival, and self interest.
"What is the Democrat Party, Alex"?
"Correct. Good for $500. You control the board."
The Germans had better reasons for voting for Hitler in 1932 than voting for Biden in 2020!
Unless Americans start breeding again, the future of EVERY suburb is dim. There is no other possible outcome.
Socialism/Communism - the equal distribution of misery.
Downtown Minneapolis has become a combat zone. Last night an Uber driver and his passenger were nearly caught in a crossfire on a major downtown street last night. The Uber driver caught on his dash cam kept a cool head and did a quick turn to avoid the gunfire. Antifa looters gutted the Target, Macy’s and several other businesses on the Hennepin Mall a week ago. The entire downtown Minneapolis area is basically a no go zone day or night.
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