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Teenager shot near peace rally(MPLS)
MPLS Star & Sickle ^
| 5-20-06
| MYRON P. MEDCALF
Posted on 05/20/2006 8:14:56 AM PDT by Rakkasan1
A teenager was shot in the back Friday night a block away from a peace rally in north Minneapolis that about 1,500 people attended. As the rally at 25th and Humboldt Avs. N. came to a close just before 9 p.m., a fight broke out at 25th and Girard and a 16-year-old male was shot, said police Lt. Greg Reinhardt.
The boy was taken to North Memorial Medical Center in Robbinsdale with non-life-threatening injures.
Organizers were distressed that the rally ended on a violent note. "For all of us, we understood that that's the reason we had come," said organizer Sondra Hollinger-Samuels.
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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; US: Minnesota
KEYWORDS: gangstas; hiphop; minneapolis; mn; mpls; murderapolis; peace; piece; rally; rap; shooting; shot; teen; uncivilizedcities; urban
went to a shooting and a peace rally broke out.
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posted on
05/20/2006 8:14:57 AM PDT
by
Rakkasan1
To: Rakkasan1
That'll teach him to hold a "God Bless Our Troops" sign at a peace rally.
To: Rakkasan1
Organizers were distressed that the rally ended on a violent note. Aren't they always? Yet these "peaceful" rallies almost always end up with someone bleeding. Doesn't speak very highly of the organizers' management skills.
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posted on
05/20/2006 8:20:29 AM PDT
by
IronJack
To: Rakkasan1
Not enough info even in the original article for me to make an insipid comment on this. Pass.
To: Rakkasan1
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posted on
05/20/2006 8:38:52 AM PDT
by
SmithL
(I voted)
To: Gay State Conservative
Have you seen the "Bless Our Troops" sign downtown? I imagine it was distasteful enough for downtown liberals to put up a sign supporting the military but including "God" on the sign was apparently just too much for them to stomach.
To: Rakkasan1
Note how careful they are to say it occurred a block away from a peace rally - like a block makes any difference when there are an alleged 1500 people milling around in some sort of a hate rant (and I won't believe this "peace rally" wasn't a hate rant, either!).
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posted on
05/20/2006 9:07:33 AM PDT
by
hsalaw
To: Rakkasan1
There haven't been any "Peace Rallies" in this country in years.They're all "Hate Parades" for people smart enough to walk but too stupid to bath.
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posted on
05/20/2006 9:10:45 AM PDT
by
Psycho_Bunny
(ISLAM: The Other Psychosis)
To: IronJack
hyphenators are usually a tip off they're haters.
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posted on
05/20/2006 11:27:52 AM PDT
by
Rakkasan1
(Illegal immigrants are just undocumented friends you haven't met yet!)
To: Rakkasan1
...shot in the back Friday night a block away from a peace rally...The peace rally worked. If he had been at the peace rally instead of a block away he wouldn't have been shot. That's what we need, more peace rallies.
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posted on
05/20/2006 11:32:25 AM PDT
by
FreePaul
To: Rakkasan1
"Organizers were distressed that the rally ended on a violent note. "
Maybe they need more candles for the vigil.
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posted on
05/20/2006 7:52:31 PM PDT
by
Valin
(Purple Fingers Rule!)
To: Psycho_Bunny
Yeah, my first thought when reading this was "Peace rally? In America?"
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