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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

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To: jeffersondem

It looks like mass brainwashing; it’s utter insanity. No one is this stupid. These people have been mentally beaten into submission.


61 posted on 06/24/2020 2:00:33 PM PDT by LateBoomer
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To: Repeat Offender

Case solved!


62 posted on 06/24/2020 2:00:49 PM PDT by Pearls Before Swine
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To: C19fan

oh
em
gee

these people are full blown mentally ill.


63 posted on 06/24/2020 2:02:17 PM PDT by spacejunkie2001
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To: euram

You can blame the media for never ever showing a black person resisting arrest. There is a common thread to these incidents and that is resisting arrest. The media’s behavior is criminal.


64 posted on 06/24/2020 2:03:08 PM PDT by LateBoomer
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To: Fai Mao

Heartfelt agreement. Also what is this ridiculous idea that everytime a cop and a black person interact, the black person is in fear of his life? Does that mean that blacks must be allowed to commit crimes with impunity (I should say, even more than at present, considering the leeway they’re constantly given to loot and riot)?


65 posted on 06/24/2020 2:04:04 PM PDT by mrsmel (I wonÂ’t be reconstructed and I do not give a damn)
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To: BookmanTheJanitor

“Good grief, the patronizing insanity of white liberals is unbelievable.”

I’ve known for some years that it was bad but it is extremely difficult to fathom how really serious the pathology is.


66 posted on 06/24/2020 2:04:52 PM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: pepsi_junkie

Zero Tolerance was all about conformity without thinking, using logic, or reasoning. A Pop Tart cutout gun = a real gun. The result is that they think in absolutes without applying a speck of common sense.


67 posted on 06/24/2020 2:06:11 PM PDT by LateBoomer
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To: C19fan

And when it gets bad enough, they will ghost the place and bring their lunatic voting habits that caused the problem in the first place, to their new home


68 posted on 06/24/2020 2:06:38 PM PDT by HP8753 (Live Free!!!! .............or don't.)
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To: kaehurowing

“...a haven to leftist activists and bohemian artists like herself...”

Tells you all you need to know. The next CHAZ.


69 posted on 06/24/2020 2:06:47 PM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: C19fan

” I put those boys in danger of death by calling the cops.”


Didn’t they put him in danger of death whilst robbing him at gunpoint?


70 posted on 06/24/2020 2:08:40 PM PDT by hanamizu
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To: C19fan

PowerLineBlog has some excerpts from the article.

It goes a long way in explaining how BSC progressives in Minneapolis could elect the likes of Omar, Ellison, and the idiot governor Walz.

There are people in insane asylums who make more sense than the Minneapolis progressives interviewed for the article.

I really feel like I have much more in common with, say, a Nigerian or Chinese Christian than I do with the typical Minnesotan. At some point in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which connect them with another. The chaos of Minneapolis, nurtured and facilitated by its mayor and governor, is not a light cause and it does not appear to be transient.


71 posted on 06/24/2020 2:11:29 PM PDT by Skepolitic
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To: C19fan

Stockholm syndrome combined with mental illness and brain rot


72 posted on 06/24/2020 2:16:19 PM PDT by ronnie raygun (SOY Mouth)
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To: Skepolitic

Don’t confuse the woke portions of downtown Minneapolis-St.Paul, or the, umm, vibrant areas, with the rest of the state, which is primarily RED except for Duluth, and occupied Rochester.


73 posted on 06/24/2020 2:20:01 PM PDT by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change with out notice.)
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To: C19fan

The article mentions something about Trump laughing about cities destroying themselves. The author does not like this attitude. Obviously, the author does not “get it”. Those cities could “save themselves” with the next election and some serious, bigtime housecleaning.

Alchoholism and addiction does not run in my family, but I have had to deal with it among a few of my acquaintenances. I have learned that if you don’t -let- someone hit rock bottom, then you are -enabling- them. I feel this way about Lib cities and states.


74 posted on 06/24/2020 2:24:10 PM PDT by The Antiyuppie (When small men cast long shadows, then it is very late in the day.)
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To: Trump.Deplorable

“Classical Liberalism is pretty much Modern American Conservatism, the 10 planks of Classical Liberals are:

1) Liberty
2) Individualism
3) Sceptism about power
4) Rule of law
5) Civil Society
6) Spontaneous Order
7) Free markets
8) Toleration
9) Peace
10)Limited Government”

If Hubert Humphrey and Seymour Simon were alive today, they would drop dead :)


75 posted on 06/24/2020 2:29:16 PM PDT by The Antiyuppie (When small men cast long shadows, then it is very late in the day.)
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To: C19fan

If a conservative is a liberal mugged by reality, this dude is the very definition of insanity, he will get robbed again and will expect a different result.


76 posted on 06/24/2020 2:32:00 PM PDT by fatez (Ya, well, you know, that's just your opinion man...)
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To: grey_whiskers

I’ve never been to Minnesota, but I’ve met a few refugees from there.

I imagine it’s kind of like Oregon and Washington State. East of the mountains, the folks are quite sane. But the population centers on the coast are BSC progressive.


77 posted on 06/24/2020 2:35:11 PM PDT by Skepolitic
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To: Bonemaker

“Wait until he gets shot or stabbed and he will feel VERY, VERY bad about it.”

Wrong. His last thoughts will be how proud he is of himself, taking one for the team.

You can’t “fix” everyone.


78 posted on 06/24/2020 2:39:23 PM PDT by The Antiyuppie (When small men cast long shadows, then it is very late in the day.)
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To: C19fan

These people are bat shit crazy. I foresee several Darwin award winners here.


79 posted on 06/24/2020 2:55:20 PM PDT by JerseyDvl ("If you're going through hell, keep going.")
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To: a fool in paradise

“It has been strange to me to be on the other side of the table, as a journalist so often used to writing about crimes against strangers — then suddenly finding my own name listed in the court records I so routinely read for others: the accused did then and there INTENTIONALLY AND KNOWINGLY PLACE MEGHAN FLYNN IN FEAR OF IMMINENT BODILY INJURY AND DEATH. The sentence about startled me out of my office chair.”

Think about that. This flake is very distressed that her name is on a criminal complaint for violence perpetrated against her lest she be perceived as ‘RACISS’.
And yet she presumes to ‘report’ to the rest of us ?!


80 posted on 06/24/2020 2:58:25 PM PDT by A strike (" Was that wrong? Should I not have done this? " - Costanza)
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