[Bloody Sam Roberts]

No one would even be having this discussion if parents actually did their jobs and raised their kids to be civilized human beings rather than allowed them to be raised by MTV and what not. Am I right?

Or if more Minneapolisians exercised their right to carry a firearm for personal protection. It's bound to happen sooner or later.

[43north]

“No one would even be having this discussion if parents...”

You should change “parents” to “mothers” since most of these feral pavement thugs don’t know who their fathers are.

[MNlurker]

Actually the only way it will get taken more serious is if it is gay men getting beaten. Minnesotans need more than straight, professional,or suburbanite white people getting treated poorly to begin fueling any real outrage.

This exact thing has happened in E Block not too far away. It was supposed to be the new center of downtown life until it was taken over by black punks and it chased away my former fellow Minnesotans...now they’re left with a fairly newly developed area that has few businesses left.

Who knows...Nicollet Mall is supposed to be the showcase of downtown Minneapolis so maybe this will finally start opening some eyes to the real problems going on there.

A number of women I know still work downtown (mainly at Target) and they don’t like working until dark due to how much more seedy the area has gotten.

[CaptainAmiigaf]

According to the MEDIA, there’s a lot of that goin’ on.
I wonder WHO and WHY (not).