Everything in this opinion piece is correct, as far as it goes. My wife was afraid to go outdoors, even into our backyard. She called me at work one day to say she was barricaded in the basement with my revolver, which is way too big for her, because there was a guy wandering around outside waving a handgun.
We could list a litany of other real issues in my neighborhood...as far as it goes.
The author didn't go far enough on blaming politicians. Yes, there were the racists, Maxine Waters and Al Sharpton. She neglected to say the burning of the city was encouraged by the mayor, Jacob Frey. She didn't say the mayhem above the covid imprisonment can be credited to our tyrant governor, Tim Walz.
She didn't say 20% of the police department had left with more sensible cops leaving every day, and no one in his right mind would work as a Mpls cop for any price. They get no support from the city or the state.
It was the city, with state approval, that allowed a lynching of a Mpls cop on national television over the last month. That kind of treatment is what any aspiring Mpls cop would be signing up for.
My biggest problem now is I still have friends and family in Mpls. One of the friends is a cop. He may have more than 20 years in now. If so he may soon be among the gone.
Minneapolis has become just another city run into the ground by Democrats. Democrats can be counted on to destroy any and everything they touch.
I worked for the opposition party since the early 1990's. You could say the rest got what they voted for. I'm not even sure that is true. Minnesota has had as much voter fraud as Chicago since, at least, the mid-1970s.
Anyone who has watched Mike Lindell's documentary about the 2020 election understands none of us are safe if that isn't fixed. In fact, if not fixed, the nation is finished. Mpls is already beyond redemption.
Thanks, Steve, ... very much, ... be safe and get the wife a smaller revolver.