Posted on 05/31/2020 6:43:43 AM PDT by Reddy
"A video posted to Twitter Saturday night is going viral after apparently showing law enforcement in Minneapolis shooting paint rounds at residents on their porch after curfew went into effect.
Tanya Kerssen posted the video to Twitter shortly after 9:30 p.m., showing what she says is the Minnesota National Guard and Minneapolis police sweeping her residential street in the Whittier Neighborhood."
(Excerpt) Read more at minnesota.cbslocal.com ...
“Does that include people staying inside their houses is my question.”
That was mine, too. Apparently, upthread, someone reported that the order DID NOT include staying inside the home.
“Growing up in the 1950s most cities had curfews for people under a certain age.
What it means is it gives the police a reason to stop and question you if you are out after the curfew.
In the 50s it was teen gangs related.”
That’s what I think of when I hear the word “curfew”, but I guess it all depends on how the order is written at the State House.
Not on my own property.
The cops are wrong on this one.
Go shoot the looters at the Target, not folks on their own porch.
What do you expect... Minnesota governor is a Democrat the Minneapolis mayor is a Democrat the police chief is black and the AG is a black antifa sympathizer.
Yep this is why they want your firearms so bad folks. So you can’t defend yourselves in times like these.
I kid, it isn’t ever ok. But I mean from the perspective of our enemedia.
It is the painful truth unfortunately. There was nothing that Mayors / Governors could do that was too strong a measure to combat the "civil disobedience" during the Lockdown. Even the Supreme Court has weighed in. Like what I heard Andrew McCarthy say, that is a real death nail to future Civil Liberty interventions of the Federal Government in the future.
Amber alerts are a national service with local/regional broadcasts.
Who gives a damn given the fact that city is under siege?
The police haven't gone far enough with these riots. It's past time real bullets were being used against those committing rioting, arson and looting.
And, (while calling you names) your congressman will make sure that your federal tax dollars pays for it all.
I do not believe in curfew orders, while they may vaguely constitutional. They are always a result of public officials and cops not doing their jobs. There has never been a conservative uprising that has caused a need for a curfew. Curfews deny conservatives of their freedom and liberty. Now generalize that to all law abiding citizens. Those citizens won’t be on the street rioting, looting and razing businesses and government buildings. Attack the problem while they are rioting, looting and committing arson. But for God’s sake, they need to do their job in the first place before there is uprising. They have failed. They are the problem.
I have it on good authority that at the beginning of all the virus hysteria, the Joplin Mo. Chief of Police told the City Planner that his officers would not be enforcing any un-Constitutional orders. Then he told his officers that they would be fired if he got word of them enforcing such orders.
That is one example. Additionally, there were elected sheriffs all over that did basically the same thing. This is a tangent to the discussion of the article, but perhaps it needs to be thought about. We can see a fundamental difference between elected sheriffs and Democrat run cities with appointed police chiefs. Elected sheriffs are sworn to up hold the constitution and are not beholden to other elected officials. Municipal and state police are beholden to elected officials. This is just one thing to think about but there are many other problems at hand.
The curfew FAQ posted by the state Department of Public Safety runs through many contingencies, including this line-
Can I be outside my house (on my property) after 8 p.m. and before 6 a.m.?
Yes.
Source: https://dps.mn.gov/macc/Pages/faq.aspx
It's hard to know what is or isn't allowed when there are mixed messages coming from the government and law enforcement.
lots of cities had curfew’s for youth under 18, “10:00PM do you know where your children are?”
Back in the early 2000’s I was still living in the far NE corner of Baltimore City not far from the Baltimore county line. Not a bad neighborhood at the time, mostly white and middle class actually with neighbors looking out for each other and a very active and effective neighborhood watch program headed up by our neighbor across the street who worked in Baltimore City ME’s office and who knew just about every cop in the city.
Early one Saturday evening my husband and I heard sirens coming up our normally quiet street - a fire truck and an ambulance and a police car all stopping in front of our next door neighbors’ and good friends’ of ours house.
Our house was up on a hill and probably a good 40+ yards from the street and had a covered front porch. We went out on the porch to observe what was going on, not out of nosiness but out of concern for our friends and FWIW, we never left our porch.
A while later we saw the wife and my good friend Jen come out and her husband on a gurney being loaded into the ambulance. I shouted to Jen “Is everything OK?” She responded that her husband had had the flu for the last several days, a fever and had gotten dehydrated and passed out when he got up from bed and she’d called 911 but he seemed to be OK now but were taking him to the hospital as a precaution, maybe for some IV fluids. I told her that if she needed anything, like to check on or take their dog out, to give me a call. “Thanks! Love you guys!” she said.
At that point a Baltimore City policeman, a white, pudgy and middle-aged cop, got out of his patrol car and walked up in front of our house and told us, actually “ordered” us to go inside. If memory serves me correctly, he said “You have no business gawking and you need to get back inside your f’n house now!”.
I was shocked and said to him, “they are friends of ours, we were concerned and I’m on my own porch, not interfering in any way and we are not gawking and BTW, you do not have the authority to order us to go inside.”
The officer then put his hand on the holster of his gun, he didn’t draw his gun but it was definitely a threatening move and shouted again “I told you to go back inside your house, and if you don’t I will arrest you!”
I was about to really get into it with the cop, when my husband who hated any sort of confrontation, said we should probably go inside. But then one of the firemen, I think he was a captain, a black guy, walked over to the cop and I heard him tell him to “get a grip and stand down”. The cop got back into his patrol car and peeled away – literally burning rubber and going up our one-way street at a high rate of speed.
The fireman then apologized to me and said, “you are a good neighbor and a good friend to be concerned and I’m sorry that cop treated you that way. If you want his name and badge number, I can get that for you.” “No” I said, “all is good” but in hindsight, I probably should have reported the cop because if that was his reaction to someone simply standing on their own front porch out of concern for a neighbor and friend, I shudder to think what else he was capable of as he had an obvious bad attitude and had a twitchy gun hand and on some sort of power trip.
The thing is that my husband was friends with another Baltimore City cop, and when he told him what had happened that night, he knew exactly who that cop was and said he was “a real head case” but also “so what are you going to do? If you report him, nothing will happen”.
In other words....be a good little lamb.
The problem is that police refuse to police themselves. Laws don’t apply to them; only to the masses.
the Masters demand obedience. Rights don’t exist if you can only exercise them when someone tells you it is acceptable.
the Masters demand obedience. Rights don’t exist if you can only exercise them when someone tells you it is acceptable.
Exactly! Riots and destruction of property going on downtown and they head out to a suburban street? Not a lot of brainpower going on there.
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