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A Minneapolis Neighborhood Vowed to Check Its Privilege. It’s Already Being Tested: Blocks from where George Floyd drew his last breaths, residents have vowed to avoid the police to protect people of color. The commitment is hard to keep.
NY Times ^ | June 24, 2020 | Caitlin Dickerson

Posted on 06/24/2020 1:04:57 PM PDT by C19fan

When Shari Albers moved three decades ago into Powderhorn Park, a tree-lined Minneapolis neighborhood known as a haven to leftist activists and bohemian artists like herself, she went to work sprucing it up.

(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Minnesota
KEYWORDS: blackprivilege; boycottthepolice; mpls; nosnitching; police; usefuldiots; virtuesignaling; white; woke
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To: C19fan

LOL. What pajama soy boy. If you have me at gunpoint I’m not going to feel bad about much of anything that happens to you. Jeezez.


21 posted on 06/24/2020 1:17:58 PM PDT by BBQToadRibs
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To: C19fan
"vowed to avoid the police to protect people of color"?

Aren't these people stereotyping people of color? "People of color" aren't all alike. Like humans everywhere, some are great humans and great neighbors...and some are scumbags and criminals.

22 posted on 06/24/2020 1:18:09 PM PDT by RoosterRedux
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To: C19fan

“Rape, rape, police!”

“Oh... I’m sorry, it was dark when you attacked me. Now that I see that you’re black... this one is on the house. Please don’t come back or I’ll have to call the Muslim Community Patrol.”


23 posted on 06/24/2020 1:18:10 PM PDT by Pearls Before Swine
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To: Fai Mao
Honestly, they deserve what’s coming. I hope it hurts.

It will. The problem is the collateral damage to the decent among us.

24 posted on 06/24/2020 1:18:17 PM PDT by FroedrickVonFreepenstein
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To: C19fan

To paraphrase progressive Dierdre Wilson, who spoke to homeowners in the aftermath of the Oakland Firestorm in 1991: “Experience the guilt, but call the police.”


25 posted on 06/24/2020 1:18:41 PM PDT by Steely Tom ([Seth Rich] == [the Democrats' John Dean])
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To: C19fan

Minnesota is lost to the Muslim/Communistas.


26 posted on 06/24/2020 1:18:57 PM PDT by Don Corleone (The truth the whole truth and nothing but the truth)
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To: wildcard_redneck
It feels good--gives them a warm glow--to virtue signal like this.

Wait until they get robbed or raped. Then they'll begin to think more conservatively.

27 posted on 06/24/2020 1:20:02 PM PDT by RoosterRedux
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To: C19fan

Don’t worry, Sharia Law is here.


29 posted on 06/24/2020 1:21:35 PM PDT by Old Yeller (Eternal live matter. Sin is the problem. Jesus is the only answer.)
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To: C19fan

This is an awesome article. Oh the stupidity. I laughed, I cried. At the end, I found small comfort in the fact that: of all the people you meet in your life, half will be below average.


30 posted on 06/24/2020 1:22:26 PM PDT by Egon
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To: C19fan

I’m old enough to remember when committing crimes was against the law


31 posted on 06/24/2020 1:23:58 PM PDT by njtrucker
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To: C19fan
“Red Dreher at American Conservative has more parts of the article:”

The parts of the article that I read were startling.

Liberals are dumber than you think.

32 posted on 06/24/2020 1:25:00 PM PDT by jeffersondem
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To: CharlesWayneCT

these “mean well” people never once consider all of the citizens who’s lives are put at risk by known criminals being permitted to run free and unchecked as they continue to commit their violent crimes.


33 posted on 06/24/2020 1:25:30 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Joe Biden- "First thing I'd do is repeal those Trump tax cuts." (May 4th, 2019))
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To: C19fan

Truth Anecdote:

Man and his mother at a tattoo parlor (lucky 13, richmond). Man gets tattoo. They leave, to go to an ATM (not sure why). They come back in, man is irate. He yells at the first tattoo artist (unfortunately, video’s audio is impossible to hear). He goes behind the country, and walks toward the office space; he is stopped. They talk him down, but at some point he pulls out a gun; the store owner also has a gun. Nobody is shot, no gun is pointed , just held.

At this, clients all scatter and run out of the store. Man is talked down, goes and sits, a black possibly female employee talks to him for a while, it all looks good, but mom starts yelling and gesturing, stirring things up. Man puts gun on table, it looks like.

Cops arrive. They do nothing. Man has put gun back in waistband. Cops take positions around store, still 5 feet or more from man, clearly trying to diffuse situation. Head cop goes off to talk to store owner.

Man pulls out his gun and hides behind his mother. Head cop sees this, pulls his gun, walks quickly over (not running), and tells man to put gun down (we hear him say this is what he did in a different video).

Man eventually puts down gun. 2 more cops arrive, and they move closer. Mother is asked for ID, gives it. Police then move in and ask man to the ground, he complies, and is cuffed and taken outside.

Mother releases video from outside. She talks over part of it, maybe a prayer in a foreign language, that her son might have also been saying, or else she is talking over his conversation with police. Everybody is calm, no excessive force.

Police explain man is going downtown, for brandishing his weapon when police were on scene. He and mom argue the store brandished, police say they will talk to the store owner later about that, but that the brandishing they are arresting him for was during their time, when he pulled a gun while the cops were there.

Note: Armed black man, call to police, pulls weapon while police present — only one officer even pulls out his gun, and he does not point it, and the man is not shot, or even physically assaulted. Contrary to the regular story told.

Woke SJW want to cancel the tattoo parlor for calling police on armed belligerant man, because the man was black, and the police might kill him. Police were never going to kill him, unless he pointed his gun at them, and the SJWs would no doubt say that if he shot a cop, it was because he was threatened.

Anyway, that’s reality today. Try to keep your employees and customers safe by calling cops when you cannot talk talk an angry black man holding a gun in his hand, and YOU are the bad person.


34 posted on 06/24/2020 1:25:52 PM PDT by CharlesWayneCT
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Minneapolis is my hometown. I hate to see what has become of it, and the people in this article is how so many in Minneapolis actually think (or fail to think). It is their bleeding-heart liberalism that has brought creatures like Mayor Cry-baby Frey into office. I remember the first black mayor, Sharon Sayles-Belton whose primary focus was ridding the city of the plague of white cops. It was during her tenure that Minneapolis became known as Murderapolis as gangs and killings spread throughout the city. Many of the people I knew continued to gush about how excited they were that Minneapolis had a black female mayor, even when she showed herself to be corrupt and incompetent.


35 posted on 06/24/2020 1:26:23 PM PDT by euram
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To: C19fan

Liberalism really IS a mental illness.


36 posted on 06/24/2020 1:27:14 PM PDT by Eagles6
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Two days after an initial conversation, his position had evolved. “Been thinking more about it,” he wrote in a text message. “I regret calling the police. It was my instinct but I wish it hadn’t been. I put those boys in danger of death by calling the cops.”

I'll bet he begs his 'partner' to beat him...

37 posted on 06/24/2020 1:27:40 PM PDT by GOPJ (No one is above the law UNLESS you're black or a white Antifa - then you can burn, loot and destroy.)
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To: C19fan

Why did he make those nice boys take his money. White privilege. He should just give all of his money to the next nice boy he sees. Stop oppressing.


38 posted on 06/24/2020 1:27:52 PM PDT by joshua c
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To: C19fan

They aren’t really serious about racial justice until they sell everything they own and give the proceeds to the first black person they meet. Then move to an African nation and live under rule by black people as a laborer for at least 25 years. Then they will be pure. Tweets won’t cut it.


39 posted on 06/24/2020 1:28:39 PM PDT by pepsi_junkie (Often wrong, but never in doubt!)
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To: C19fan

Blind people protecting people of color?


40 posted on 06/24/2020 1:28:57 PM PDT by antidemoncrat (uff)
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