Posted on 04/18/2021 3:50:11 PM PDT by grundle
According to her campaign website, Ortega was a policy aide at Minneapolis City Hall and spent ten years working in city government.
A Minneapolis City Council candidate encouraged those who “feel like burning shit down” to target the city’s wealthiest residents instead of causing further damage to poor communities.
“Just a personal thought — just in case y’all feel like burning shit down, the poor community is not your oppressors. FYI — lake of the isles has more then [sic] needed and won’t be missed,” Rita Ortega wrote on her personal Facebook page, which is under her full name of Margarita, according to screenshots shared widely on social media Friday.
A popular tourist attraction, Lake of the Isles is surrounded by some of Minneapolis’ most luxurious homes, owned by the city’s wealthiest residents.
Presumably, Ortega’s comments were made in the context of this week’s riotous behavior in Brooklyn Center, where 20-year-old Daunte Wright was killed by police Sunday.
In a follow-up post, Ortega seemed to argue that her comments were justified because the wealthy “have the insurance and means to rebuild.”
“Division has been created and continues not by my hands. I’m not the greedy one living in million dollar mansions while people are sleeping in tents and on the street,” she said.
Ortega said she went to visit Lake of the Isles to “pray for healing, just to be met with more pain of seeing another injustice, that our home is not ours and the rich get to live in happiness and luxury where our ancestors used to pray and live.”
According to her campaign website, Ortega was a policy aide at Minneapolis City Hall and spent 10 years working in city government.
She was profiled in the Washington Post Monday and said she has “always felt we’ve never really needed the police.”
“The only way forward is abolishing the police,” she said on Twitter shortly after Wright’s death. “No institution should be allowed to murder in our communities with impunity.”
Just make sure it’s a neighborhood with White Liberals. They voted for it, after all.
More popcorn please
Alright this is getting out of hand. These people are clearly treasonous pricks. It’s time to literally take this country back...
If someone ever needed a definition, and an example, of “impenetrably stupid”, I think we found one.
Hopefully all the conservatives have left town by now...
The voters are the stupid ones.
The reason they don’t venture into the suburbs much is they know they’ll get shot there.
Lake of the Isles is an enclave of very wealthy liberals and you are correct, they voted for all of this nonsense. I had the great pleasure of going to one of these homes for a bid the day after Trump won the election. The woman was almost crying.
I agree with her on one point. We don’t need the police.
The longer you wait, the arduous the task... and they already have a big head start.
“... have the insurance and means to rebuild.”
Not that it would help the poor idiot to understand, but insurance works because the chance of things burning down THERE are small. Insurance covers risks with a high cost of loss and a low probability of occurrence.
If the people that burn stuff down did so less often insurance would cover them, TOO.
But no, she (or they) don’t understand that.
Almost all those high-end homes would have been built for people who created many jobs(businesspeople) or saved many lives(doctors).
Most are still owned by such people.
Particularly those "evil" AR15 rifles...
...said she has “always felt we’ve never really needed the police.”
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A funny scenario would be BLM/antifa comes to burn her place down, causing her to beg for the police.
Traditionally insurance doesn’t contractually cover for riot losses.
That’s right or terrorism.
If they rebuild, it would probably be in Edina, which I believe is the high-end independent suburb of Minneapolis.
Yeah, why burn down poor trashed neighborhoods when you can torch nice big homes and kill white folk. It makes perfect sense.
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