Posted on 12/31/2013 4:45:43 AM PST by markomalley
Mark Andrew is a prominent Minneapolis Democrat. He served as long as he wanted to as a Hennepin County (Minneapolis and inner-ring suburbs) Commissioner, from 1982 until he resigned from the Hennepin County Board in 1999. He served a term as chairman of Minnesota’s Democratic Farmer Labor Party in the mid 1990s. Last month he came in a distant second in a crowded field running for Minneapolis mayor, though it wasn’t for lack of trying. There might be a left-wing cause or canard that Andrew hasn’t supported in the course of a long public career, but I doubt it. He’s a liberals’ liberal.
Andrew is back in the news this month because he was assaulted last week in public at the Mall of America by two teenage girls, one 17 and one — Letaija Shapree Cutler-Cain — 18. They were protecting a teenage boy who had stolen Andrew’s iPhone off a table at the MOA Starbucks. The trio had been casing the Starbucks all afternoon to assess the potential for a robbery.
Andrew gave chase to the teenage boy who lifted his phone. As he followed, the girls jumped him and pulled out a baton with which to pummel him. “I’m going to kill you! Let me go or I’m going to kill you!” Cutler-Cain yelled as she dug her fingernails into his face. Andrew took nine stitches in his head as a result of the beating.
The New York Daily News has a good article rounding up the facts of the story as of this past weekend. Yesterday Cutler-Cain made her first court appearance on charges arising from the incident and the 17-year-old was charged in juvenile court. KARE11 reports on Cutler-Cain’s court appearance here. I would like to know why the authorities aren’t moving to have the 17-year-old certified for prosecution as an adult, but that’s a story for another day.
Andrew’s phone was recovered at the Mall. Where is the thug who lifted it from Andrew? Chercher l’homme. That too is a story for another day.
However you look at it, this is an appalling story. The theft took place in broad daylight at a highly trafficked spot in Minnesota’s most highly trafficked mall. Andrew describes himself as a target because of his age, but, as I recall, Andrew is a tall, imposing man. He was nevertheless jumped by one girl while another beat him with a deadly weapon and Andrew was left to fend for himself. Perhaps real men don’t shop at the Mall of America, or patronize Starbucks, but that doesn’t exactly suffice for an explanation. Andrew says the patrons were too scared to help out. As it turns out, Andrew must have been the manliest man in the vicinity.
All this over an iPhone which, at best, might have a street value of a few hundred dollars. (Here is an article on the trade in stolen smartphones.) In all likelihood, however, wouldn’t the phone would have had the updated iOS7 operating system with security features making it more difficult for anyone but the owner to use the phone?
Irving Kristol famously described a neoconservative as a liberal mugged by reality. In Minnesota, however, the liberal’s not for turning. In the immediate aftermath of last week’s events, Andrew was sticking to type. Andrew told the Star Tribune he would remain involved in the case and try to help his attackers.
“They’re damaged kids, and maybe they’re too far gone, but I think there’s redemption for everybody,” he said. “So we’ll try to find a way for them to get in a place where they can turn their lives around.” Prison would be perfect.
maybe they’re too far gone
Maybe Andrew is too far gone to recognize reality.
The only thing that would make this a much more interesting story if Andrews got the $14,000 medical bill deductible that his Obamacare medical plan charges.
Posting their heads on pikes outside the mall entrance would be perfect, but I guess that would be intolerant.
Do the liberals ever wonder that their many years of welfare created a society where the only way to get ahead is through crime? Rather than helping minorities stand on their feet and be self-suffiicient and proud they kept dishing out the welfare checks which only helped the people get by but never have a fulfiling life. But, the checks bought votes.
This account proves once again that liberalism is a mental disease.
What a great line..trust everyone gets the reference..
Heads on pikes might be coming sooner than you think. The question is, whose heads?
I wonder what he would be saying if a Tea Party member had done it?
Its funny how liberals despise christianity, except for its wussier, self-effacing and dare I say it, suicidal aspects concerning being merciful and forgiving to evil scum bent on destroying those who subscribe to it.
Like this is of course as if no doubt the first time the little darlings have ever done such as thing..
No, sorry, I don’t. Please explain.
I’m equally tempted to be vindictive, but try very hard not to be. One of the very few things I agree with liberals about is redemption.
As a Christian, I believe that even the most heinous crime can be forgiven. Maybe not by me - I’m not always able to find that much compassion in myself - but certainly by God. That does not mean that there should be no punishment for a crime. I think all three perps in this case should be locked up for a very, very long time.
I wouldn’t wish harm like this on anyone, but if someone was going to get his @ss kicked at the Mall of America by a couple of quasi-humanoid mutants, I think it couldn’t have happened to a better guy.
Was at the MOA after dark for a show one evening.
Will never go there again as it is a gun-free (open season on Whitey) zone.
Wife and went to a movie once at MOA when we lived in MN. Too many gang-bangers, too many cell phones and finger flips.
To hell with them.
“Andrew says the patrons were too scared to help out. As it turns out, Andrew must have been the manliest man in the vicinity.”
More likely the other patrons didn’t want to throw their futures down the toilet by being charged with a hate crime.
“There have been dozens of mall and theater riots/muggings reported in the last week. I’m certain that dozens more have gone unreported. The veneer of civilization is becoming thinner and thinner.”
That veneer will continue to deteriorate as an increasing number of people fall behind; they won’t simply disappear quietly. The American Dream is dead for too many people today; until decent jobs are widely available again expect this surge in property crimes to continue (and increase).
This guy is apparently beyond redemption.
He needs to admit that the entire episode was his personal fault and a function of his unremitting personal devotion to his own White Privilege.
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