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Back in Omar's district, police deal with gangs, relations with tight-lipped Somali community
Fox News ^ | 2-17-19 | Hollie McKay

Posted on 02/17/2019 6:48:20 AM PST by SJackson

MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. - In the dead of the cold, late night on Tuesday, a young Somali man was shot in the hip. Someone took him to the local trauma center, left him there, and drove off.

The man told police at his bedside that he didn’t know who shot him, who took him to the hospital, or why he was targeted. “I’m intoxicated,” he told cops, while doctors tended his wound, before insisting he didn't know anything else about what happened.

For the attending police officers, it was a frustrating, albeit familiar, response from a member of the Somali community, whose support in November sent one of their own, Rep. Ilhan Omar, to Congress. While Omar has spoken out frequently and forcefully on a range of issues - some that seem little connected to her district - most members of the Somali community she represents remain far more insular.

The national epidemic of shootings involving young African-American men in America's cities certainly isn't unique to Minneapolis. But some officers here believe issues of cultural assimilation involving the Somali immigrant community, and a struggle on both sides to better communicate law enforcement's mandate to protect and serve, makes it a particularly imposing challenge. One that politicians like Omar, they say, could do much more to effectively address.

“When they come here, they come with their own experiences of not trusting the police, and from a place where the police are known to be corrupt. And the challenge for us lies in trying to get them to cooperate,” said one law enforcement officer. “They’ll often call 911 when they need help. But when we come, they often won’t then tell us who is causing the problem so we can take action or stop the crime from happening again.”

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: minn; minnsomalis; omar; somalis; undocumented
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To: Eric in the Ozarks

They were invited in by Minnesotans.
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No, they weren’t. They were brought in by the Minneapolisans.

Don’t confuse Minnesota with Minneapolis. They are two different worlds.


21 posted on 02/17/2019 7:34:54 AM PST by shelterguy
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To: Liz

I have questions about Omar The Tent Lady also. How many legitimately registered voters are there in her district? How many votes were cast in her district? How many legal citizens? I would bet that these questions could be asked of nearly all dem districts. And I thiMk I know the answers.


22 posted on 02/17/2019 7:46:12 AM PST by certrtwngnut (4- Do something,,,,even if it's wrong.)
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To: cdcdawg

It was Cambodians and Vietnamese before. No one moved to Minnesota. Too cold. They leave so the politicians bring unsuspecting foreigners in... : )


23 posted on 02/17/2019 7:47:00 AM PST by minnesota_bound
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To: Eric in the Ozarks

They were invited in by Minnesotans.
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The average IQ in Somalia is 68.
Average in US 98.
More immigrants mean declining US average, of course.
China is near the top with 108.

Close the borders and deport the criminal welfare bum immigrants. Now.


24 posted on 02/17/2019 7:54:12 AM PST by frank ballenger ( the End vote fraud,noncitizens & illegals voting & leftist media news censorship or we're finished.)
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To: certrtwngnut
Good questions----deserve a repeat:

About Omar The Tent Lady (smirk).

<><> How many legitimately registered voters are there in her district?

<><> How many votes were cast in her district?

<><> How many voters are legal citizens?

<><> How many are voters using multiple identities?

<><> How many of her voters do not live in her district?

<><> How much of the Somali daycare fraud was contributed to her campaign?

<><> Did Somali terrorists contribute to her campaign?

25 posted on 02/17/2019 7:57:11 AM PST by Liz ( Our side has 8 trillion bullets; the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use.)
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To: gibsonguy

GHW Bush began the importation of Somalis.
His “adopted” son Clinton and his son George W. continued it.
Obama did too, but most of them were already there.


26 posted on 02/17/2019 7:57:18 AM PST by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here of Citizen Parents_Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: cdcdawg

GHW Bush


27 posted on 02/17/2019 7:57:57 AM PST by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here of Citizen Parents_Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: All
New Capitol Hill party game.

Pin the tail on the Muslim ***.

28 posted on 02/17/2019 7:59:31 AM PST by Liz ( Our side has 8 trillion bullets; the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use.)
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To: SJackson

Leftist democrats have literally shipped the enemy to live right next to us. What is the point of all these foreign wars which try to keep the war against islam an ‘away game’ if the leftist democrats ship the islamic soldier into the US to kill us slowly?

JoMa


29 posted on 02/17/2019 8:07:26 AM PST by joma89
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To: Lurkinanloomin

As I remember Bush I was “stampeded” into Somalia & allowing in “refugees” by the constant showing of the Somalia Crisis (Somalia Clan Wars) on TV with the accompanying starvation (TV pics of starving babies!). Then add in the constant caterwauling “Bush & Republicans are racist if we don’t intervene!” by the Congressional Black Caucus. In short the race card was going full tilt and Bush I’s reaction was that of just a another typical Republican cowering in the corner from the use of the card. Yes Bush was weak on this but so was every Republican in their reaction to “the card”.

“The card” has only recently expired - lost its sting! Over played & people are sick of hearing it. It still works on some GOP’ers who are advised by beltway establishment types. However the trend is against them now,


30 posted on 02/17/2019 8:14:39 AM PST by Reily
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To: gibsonguy

Her district is Minneapolis. Almost 70% white. Blame the dodos.


31 posted on 02/17/2019 8:17:13 AM PST by TexasGator (Z1z)
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To: SJackson

Minnesota and Michigan are now muslim states.


32 posted on 02/17/2019 8:36:44 AM PST by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: SJackson

“They’ll often call 911 when they need help. But when we come, they often won’t then tell us who is causing the problem so we can take action or stop the crime from happening again.”

That is often the case for black and Hispanic perps. The minority neighborhoods will often protect them from the police.


33 posted on 02/17/2019 8:57:34 AM PST by antidemoncrat
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To: SJackson

I thought alcohol was haram!


34 posted on 02/17/2019 9:18:16 AM PST by Phil DiBasquette
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To: gibsonguy

How many times does the Rosenberg’s have to flip in their grave? WE NEED A SPECIAL COMMISSION AND INDICTMENTS DATING BACK TO THE BEGINING OF THE IMPOSTERS TERM TO THE PRESENT!


35 posted on 02/17/2019 9:32:19 AM PST by ronnie raygun (nic dip.com)
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To: SJackson

I don’t know very much about what kind of people Somalis are. And I don’t trust the opinions of white Europeans, either. I wonder what other Africans from Africa think...I wonder if we are getting Africa’s best and brightest people.


36 posted on 02/17/2019 9:49:09 AM PST by The Antiyuppie ("When small men cast long shadows, then it is very late in the day.”)
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To: gibsonguy

“So little farm communities found themselves being run by a bunch of illiterate savages.”

The Africanization of America.


37 posted on 02/17/2019 10:11:40 AM PST by aquila48
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To: shelterguy

It took more than just the voters in the MN 5th District to elect Minnesota’s new attorney general...


38 posted on 02/17/2019 10:39:39 AM PST by Eric in the Ozarks (Baseball players, gangsters and musicians are remembered. But journalists are forgotten.)
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To: hanamizu

Ditto in Nebraska.


39 posted on 02/17/2019 10:40:24 AM PST by Eric in the Ozarks (Baseball players, gangsters and musicians are remembered. But journalists are forgotten.)
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To: Eric in the Ozarks

The adoring media helped him all the way.


40 posted on 02/17/2019 1:51:00 PM PST by shelterguy
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