Posted on 04/19/2021 2:00:04 PM PDT by upchuck
The Minneapolis City Council, in an unbelievable move, given the powder keg on their doorstep, voted 11-1 to oppose the use of tear gas and other non-lethal munitions in response to civil disorder. It would be fair to wonder if someone dropped these 11 elected leaders on their heads as children. In the last 48 hours, we have had a sitting member of Congress, Representative Maxine Waters (D-Calif.), inciting violence if former officer Derek Chauvin is convicted of murder, and two National Guardsman injured in a drive-by shooting. The Chauvin trial is in closing arguments, and the jury is expected to begin deliberating with the threat of mob justice over their heads.
Luckily, this vote is, to some extent, worthless virtue signaling. Mayor Jacob Frey controls the Minneapolis Police Department, which he completely demoralized and ruined during last summer’s riots. Hopefully, he will ignore the insane members of the city council. Governor Tim Walz has activated 3,000 members of Minnesota’s National Guard in advance of the verdict, which is a significant improvement over his lag in doing so last year.
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Judge
Cahill just read the riot act to Maxine Waters. (Indirectly, of course.)
God bless the rioters.
At E V E R Y point is human history people have the governance they are willing to fight for.
We are unwilling.
We have exactly what we deserve.
soon to be minneaplwas...
fidiots...
they are
because then the city doesnt get sued, the people defending themselves do
the nyc mayor and commie wife pleaded for citizens to get involved in stopping thugs, for this very exact reason, they want lawsuits on self defense citizens, not the city
“The Minneapolis City Council, in an unbelievable move, given the powder keg on their doorstep, voted 11-1 to oppose the use of tear gas and other non-lethal munitions in response to civil disorder”
When civil disorder breaks out the police should call the city council president and say “Get the council down here and deal with the “mostly peaceful protest” that is going on.
Doubtful. I was on a jury black on black crime. Every black voted not guilty despite irrefutable evidence
There should be a new “Walk Away” movement. The walking away of cops from their big city jobs, leaving the feral animals to live in the ashes that they create.
Which, unfortunately is precisely what the Left wants.
You say that as if it's a bad thing?
Quick, get that copyrighted!
FORBES -At Least 13 Cities Are Defunding Their Police Departments:*
At least 13 U.S. cities have cut funding from police department budgets or decreased officer numbers with several more in the process. As of last August: *2020/08/13/
Austin, Texas, is the latest city to announce a police defunding effort, with the City Council on Thursday voting unanimously to cut $150 million (roughly one third) from the police budget
Austin’s announcement closely follows the sweeping budget change approved by Seattle—a $3.5 million budget cut . The country’s two largest cities, New York and Los Angeles, approved budget cuts weeks after protests began—New York slashed $1 billion from its $5.6 billion operating budget while Los Angeles approved a $150 million budget cut from its budget. Also in California, San Francisco approved a $120 million cut to the police and sheriff’s department.*
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Democrats are making everyone’s families less safe except for their Dem elites with their own protection forces.
What will the Super Rich Elites, do when their blue city mayors replace their city cops with Sharia Muslims and other social workers with BLMers/Antifas?
Those Elites will hire our unemployed and well trained former Special Ops people. Who are no longer wanted in our worthless SJW/PC military.
The former SpecOps, when hired, will handle any protection issues their super rich Elites might need 24/7. That will include special preventive action as well as ‘neutralizing’, when needed.
These former special ops in their new areas of action, will operate, react and control/end any issues without any problems from so called local cops/DA’s, mayors and the local mediots in the local media.
The blue city mayors and city council members will welcome these Special Ops People, while slashing their city police budgets and eliminating their regular police. Their costs will be minimized and their budgets will be balanced.
How many mayors/governors in Blue States/Cities would get rid of their police forces in a New York minute, if they were not opposed by their elites, who control them????
These former special ops guys might even protect members of Congress from Deploreables if they are needed like on 6 January, this year in our capitol building in DC.
Listening to the governor right now, he’s rendered the verdict guilty and isn’t helping with those wanting to riot. What an idiot.
Maybe all the cops can just take a knee and maybe wash some feet.
Yes! That will solve the entire Commie/nazi gang problem. Good thinking but please don’t tell soroznazi-pelousy-bidenharris or they’ll have it done right away.
I remember the O J trial...
That’s the ticket. Arrest anyone defending their property and charge them with hat crimes as well. If it is a “person of color” defending his property, charge him with hate crimes as well since he is also “benefiting from white privilege”.
Communists are so bleeping predictable.
BLM and Antifa as cops, supervised by Party commissars
It’s not a question of will Minneapolis burn but for how long. The verdict in the Chauvin trail is irrelevant.
Ask for militias to come out to test their new guns....no scumbag limit!
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