Probe of police shooting finds Somali man knew English

Minneapolis Star Tribune ^ | June 22, 2002 | Howie Padilla and Lourdes Medrano Leslie

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Hardware store workers who sold Abu Jeilani a machete the day before he was shot to death by Minneapolis police told investigators that he spoke and understood English, according to the Hennepin County Sheriff's Office investigation.

But some Somali community leaders denied Friday that Jeilani, who was killed after refusing to drop the machete and a crowbar, spoke English well enough to understand police commands.

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Related thread:

Officers cleared in shooting death of Somali man

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"He said he was going to be using it at a restaurant," Daniel Casci told investigators. "He said he was going to be using it to cut goat and turkey.

[glc1173@aol.com]

This is nothing compared to what is going to happen in Lost Angeles.

Pat Buchanan has written that there are broad regions of the U.S. in which English is seldom if ever heard already. Much of "Mexifornia" would be the center of that.

What do you think is going to happen when some Los Angeles police officer shoots some guy after warning him (in English) to drop an object - and then MEChA's radicals claim the guy who was shot only spoke Spanish? (Or what if the officer warned the guy in Spanish - and MEChA's agitators then claim the dead guy only spoke English?)

See where the coast-to-coast Quebecization of America is leading?

And that's aside from all the other detriments to the quality of public life - from the government schools taught partly in Spanish to Army soldiers not fluent in the English the NCOs give orders in.

Get the sticker!

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Even if he didn't know English he should have been able to figure it out by the fact that the Police were pointing their guns in his general direction as they screamed at him.

Maybe he was one of those retarded criminals who should have been exempted. I guess we'll never know now.

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You know that Californina, Texas, and other parts of several southwestern states really belong to Mexico?

We stole that land from them, so it's only fair we let them (the illegals) run around on it like a bunch of wild animals.

[riverrunner]

Sounds to me after following this story from the beginning. I am sure it was a case of suicide by cop. This guy didn't have the guts to do himself in so he force some officer to do it.

[FreedomPoster]

suicide by cop

Bingo!

[glc1173@aol.com]

"I am sure it was a case of suicide by cop."

You still don't get it. Somalis don't have a militant inside-the-U.S. leadership claiming that much of the U.S. is "theirs" and should be returned to them - and Somalia isn't contiguous to the U.S. either.

What the heck do you think will happen the day after some illegal from Tijuana does a "suicide-by-cop" in Lost Angeles - and the many militant "reconquista" activists there start crying for blood?

[Brownie74]

What is it with Somali's and goats anyway?

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Dunno, but you should be happy that your new business is booming.

[Brownie74]

Yeah, that little old goat herder me. LOL!!

[riverrunner]

So what does this have to do with an Somalis in MN.