Minneapolis City Council VP Andrea Jenkins
Posted on 06/30/2021 7:19:21 AM PDT by grundle
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — A Minneapolis city leader says she is traumatized after protesters held her against her will.
City Council Vice President Andrea Jenkins says activists held her captive in her car for 90 minutes, while forcing her to agree to their demands.
Activist Donald Hooker Jr. — one of the activist seen on video confronting Jenkins — says he asked her about police accountability, defunding police and returning George Floyd Square to the people.
“We were having a conversation. I was trying to keep her accountable, and I said, ‘Well, we we’ll just have to show up and do a protest at your house, a friendly protest,’ and then that’s when she blew up in my face,” Hooker Jr. said.
Jenkins says she was traumatized and tried to defuse the situation by walking to the vehicle she came in, only to be surrounded and held against her will, while forced to agree to the demands of those surrounding her — including the immediate resignation of Mayor Jacob Frey.
“I walked away, and then he followed me here,” Jenkins said in the video.
Mayor Jacob Frey says he does not believe what took place is protected speech.
“I will certainly let the council vice president speak for herself. We did have a conversation and she made very clear that it was under duress,” Frey said. “It has nothing to do with First Amendment speech. First Amendment speech is about having the ability to express yourself, not the ability to compel somebody else under duress to take your position and intact your speech.”
He is furious Jenkins was held against her will.
“I don’t care what your politics are, Democrat, Republican, Independent. Everyone should be speaking out against this,” Frey said. “The issue you are fighting for, you should not hold people against their will and compel them to take your position under duress. That’s fundamentally wrong, it’s anti-democratic.”
But Hooker Jr. says it’s all about holding her accountable for what he calls her inactions.
“I do believe that she knows what the people want, and she understands … what the power of the people looks like,” Hooker Jr. said.
Jenkins declined to speak with WCCO Tuesday, but she shared a statement on Facebook, saying in part that she will continue to be willing to sit down with activists, advocates and protesters to understand their policy change demands and recommendations. However, she refuses to be bullied and held hostage to accomplish that.
Minneapolis police say Jenkins did not call 911 for help or file a police report.
What would be the response if a conservative group did this?
The good people of Minnesota getting exactly what they want. It makes me smile.
A clear case of schadenfreude.
I’m sure the FIB will be investigating this elected official being held hostage any minute now.....................................
THAT’S hilarious!!
If you CCW the conversation is shorter....
Seems like we must have laws against that kind of thing.....
Oh, that’s right, there’s no one who will prosecute.
***The issue you are fighting for, you should not hold people against their will and compel them to take your position under duress. That’s fundamentally wrong***
That’s pretty much what is happening to companies. If they don’t go along with BLM or LGBTQ, they receive cancel culture, so THAT makes it under duress.
I hope you signed it , Up Yours
That’s a dude...I think..
There’s an AM drive-time radio show in the Twin Cities called “Justice & Drew”.
The guys said today that they’re not sorry to see this happen. In the last year, many DFL leaders have turned the other way while the BLM and Antifa mobs attacked Trump supporters in downtown Minneapolis, protested outside Mpls Police Federation head Bob Kroll’s house in suburban St Paul, etc.
They thought harnessing these radical activists and troublemakers was a good way to help get Trump out of office and raise “consciousness” about their issues. But now, the mob has turned and has gone after them - and guess what, they don’t like it.
As a former resident of Minneapolis (until 2014), I’m not sorry to see this happen. Andrea Jenkins and every other elected official in Minneapolis grabbed the bull by the tail too many times and now it’s come back to bite them in the butt.
I’m not sorry. Not one bit. Schadenfreude!
Their ox has been gored now. I expect Donald Hooker Jr.to be arrested and charged.
Like the Jan 6 witch hunt.
Karma can be a b*tch.
Attention whore! They come in all shapes and sizes.
He probably got the idea for THIS con from Jussie Smollet!
Anything signed under duress can’t be considered binding. You do what you gotta do to get out of a mess.
In a normal world that would be kidnapping charges and lengthy jail time.
Are Black women in charge of EVERYTHING these days?
And where are the arrests of the perpetrators?
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