Riots, arson leave Minnesota communities of color devastated(Now, ethnically diverse neighborhoods are grappling with the loss of jobs, services and investments)

Star Tribune ^ | JUNE 2, 2020 | Maya Rao

[Nothingburger]

Wow! Actually reporting from “Red Star”

Who woulda thunk?

[chuckee]

Canada probably feels they live in the apartment above a meth lab right about now . The left has a way doing that to their neighbors.

[minnesota_bound]

North Minneapolis has been a high crime area since the 1960’s.
I lived in the area for some 6 years in the 1980’s
Did not look any or feel any different in 2006 when I visited the area.

[Enten]

It is hard to be sympathetic as it seems the voters got the leadership and protection they voted for (or didn’t vote).

[LeonardFMason]

Oh well. I would only be faking if I said I cared.

You Pee and Poop in your OWN pool and soon your swimming in sewer.

More importantly when do the NHL playoffs start?

[Scram1]

Technically Hiawatha Street is as fakey as Elizabeth Warren is to most Native Heritage—see Longfellow poem.

Pipestone Minnesota use to have a summer theater pageant themed around the poem—no more.

And always ignite your peace pipe with the sacred buffalo dung to make Sitting Bull proud.

[T.B. Yoits]

According to Black Lives Matter, Native American lives don't matter. Only Black Lives Matter.

Black Lives Matter is a corporation with a board and a CEO. The bulk of their "employees" are unpaid individuals manipulated into serving the corporation.

[TnTnTn]

Yawn....f them...if they are too stupid to see they set back their cause 20 years...they are beyond help...demonrats to the rescue...mmmm where have they been last 60 years? Didn’t they fix this stuff by now?

[euram]

I lived in the Mpls riot zone for 25 years and raised 2 kids there. I had no problem with the men of the 3rd Precinct. I know every inch of the area that was looted and burned, and it makes me feel bad that my old neighborhood has gone through this. Yesterday, Jacob Frey, the mayor Minneapolis said that the other 3 cops involved in the Floyd incident were complicit because they stood by and did nothing and should be punished for that. I agree, those who stood by and did nothing to put an end to the rioting, looting, and burning are complicit, and should be punished for their complicity Put Frey at the head of that list of those who are complicit in the destruction in every city. It was Frey’s total failure that set the stage for the riots in the other cities.

[ronnie raygun]

Now they dont have to worry about going back to thier jobs and continue getting unemployment

[VanShuyten]

“ The antagonists were racially mixed at first, he said, but were nearly all white by Thursday night as protesters took over the Third Precinct. What troubled him and his family most, including wife Nina Sobotta, was that many of the troublemakers appeared to be outsiders.”

More evidence for Mayor Frey that white supremacists were the source of all their problems.

[null and void]

[TalBlack]

When the nonprofit’s executive director, Kelly Drummer, returned to the scene a few hours later and saw the destruction, she said, “I knelt down and I just cried.”

No worries. For Kelly the evil stupid honky will still be the evil stupid honky.

[blam]

I laugh when I hear the term 'Food Deserts.'

Whites will be called racists when businesses will no open in these riot devastated areas.

[Kickass Conservative]

Don’t worry, President Quid Pro Joe the groping Pedo will bail them out next January. Patience Grasshopper...

[philled]

The photos from Germany last week showing Antifa protesting the lifting of Covid19 lockdowns certainly made that connection visible. Nice to see the use of water cannons- many of them could probably use a bath!

[hal ogen]

When these half-brained nitwits continually elect (and reelect) LIBs/Leftists/DIMs and when they riot at the drop of a hat...who cares that they suffer? My micro-violin is so small that I can’t find it. Enjoy the suck!

[Fireone]

Only one item left in the Lake Street Target...work boots.

[OldGoatCPO]

I told my daughter this will be over in a week, old news by August but the hangover will last a decade or longer in the neighborhoods burned out by rioters. You will see a gnashing of teeth and the cries for assistance. Politicians will promise economic development zones, none of which will really matter because insurance companies will not insure the small businesses that try to open. With government subsidies and high rates some insurance companies may insure projects in that area, but what fool would invest in that? The people who actually have disposable income will not, under any circumstance, shop in that neighborhood. Buildings that suffered anything other then superficial damage have to be razed and rebuilt by new owners if they wish to build a business in that area. That with insurance and new high state business taxes (to pay for riots and related law suits) will makes the cost even more exorbitant.
The large chain stores that are insured may reopen, however with no jobs locals cannot afford chain store prices. In ten or twenty years the best thing that will happen, the area will be gentrified with new housing and boutique shops with a small museum to remember the rich African American culture that once rioted in the area to stop police brutality (sarc). In the meantime the families who have lived there for decades will move out because they cannot afford the property taxes or rent. The worse case scenarios is the areas will continue to decline as new business development never happens, because nobody wants to invest or shop in a crime ridden, gang infested neighborhood. The site of former small business ‘s destroyed in the riot become vacant lots or basketball courts. Every few years a politician comes around and promises help, but all they get are free phones, more bus service and more low income housing for gangs to infest. What few buildings are still habitable will see small mom and pop stores come and go as crime skyrockets. Rodeo Drive and 5th Avenue will reopen because people with disposable income will go there and because those shop owners really did have insurance. But it will never be the same. The reputations of police departments in major cities have taken a serious blow, not because of the George Floyd killing, because they refused to "Protect and Serve." Anyone that can will get the hell out of cities, hopefully ending the great libral wet dream of the total urbanization of America and see a resurgence in small towns.

[Amberdawn]

Watch these neighborhoods get gentrified by virtue signalling whites.