Posted on 07/20/2020 3:05:58 PM PDT by Louis Foxwell
"It feels like something really bad is about to happen every second of the day.”
Wed Jul 15, 2020
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Last month, the New York Times brought its readers the heartwarming story of the Powderhorn neighborhood in Minneapolis whose residents had decided not to call the police.
"If you are a comfortable white person asking to dismantle the police I invite you to reflect: are you willing to stick with it?" Minneapolis City Council President Lisa Bender had demanded. "Will you be calling in three months to ask about garage break-ins? Are you willing to dismantle white supremacy in all systems, including a new system?"
Powderhorn residents had taken that message to heart and refused to call the police.
A few days later, a “juvenile” girl was assaulted. The Associated Press reported that, “the people who took the victim to the hospital did not call police.”
By July, the encampment had grown to 800 people and 3 sexual assaults.
The oppressive system of “white supremacy” was being dismantled one rape at a time.
The Powderhorn Park encampment really took off when the Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board of Commissioners declared that the city's parks were now "sanctuaries" for anyone who wanted to live in them. The resolution cited Governor Walz's declaration of a "peacetime emergency" which banned removing homeless people from anywhere they wanted to be.
Since then, 38 more Minneapolis parks have been turned into tent cities, and of these, Powderhorn Park is the worst. The park version of CHAZ began with the Black Lives Matter riots after George Floyd’s death when the Sheraton Minneapolis Midtown Hotel was taken over, renamed the Sanctuary Hotel, and filled with homeless vagrants by lefty activists.
"This is a means of land repatriation. This is a means of addressing historic deep disparities," one of the lefty activists declared.
The Sheraton was being repatriated from its Indian-American owner by indigenous white lefties and the minority hotel owner had been “confronted with the alternative of evacuating his hotel and having it possibly burned down.”
The lefties quickly grew bored or frightened as the former Sheraton was overrun with “rampant drug use and sales”, piles of garbage and overdoses. There were fights, drug deals, and even a fire in one room. The hotel was cleared and the encampments headed to Powderhorn.
So did the drug dealing, the overdoses, the violence, and the sexual assaults.
Two girls and one woman have been assaulted. But an activist insisted that rapes, “can happen in any park."
And two underage girls being assaulted in a park can happen at any time. So can a man tracking down a woman, after previously assaulting her because he thought she was hiding heroin from him, and groping her while pointing a knife at her. And fights with crowbars and hatchets can break out at any time, in any park, once you get rid of the police.
But, even though it reinforced white supremacy, someone called 911. This wasn’t that unusual, because 911 calls had tripled.
Despite Lisa Bender, some people weren’t checking their privilege and were calling the cops. And the park police were dealing with "assaults with blunt objects, a fentanyl overdose, and someone being chased by others with guns and baseball bats."
Those are the sorts of things that could happen in any park… occupied by junkies.
Minneapolis officials have been steadily denying that dumping hundreds of vagrants in the park could possibly lead to crime.
“When we talk about crimes that happen here, these are not new crimes,” Minneapolis Park Board Commissioner AK Hassan insisted. As a Somali immigrant, he claimed that he won't vote to evict anyone. “Let’s not find excuses.”
Hassan, a Rep. Ilhan Omar ally, had praised the vote to defund the police as an "opportunity to reimagine how we approach public safety, not only for our city but the entire country."
The reimagining is underway in Powderhorn Park.
"It feels like something really bad is about to happen every second of the day. And you don't know what it is. And so every explosion, whether it's a firework or a gunshot or someone screaming or whatever, you just - I feel chest pain constantly now," Angelina Roslik, a local resident who works as a waitress, told NPR.
Minneapolis’ Democrat leaders have reimagined public safety as utter terror.
“When you have two juvenile females raped, an adult female raped, domestic violence with a knife and the suspect has an arrest warrant for sexual assault, you have a problem in that park," a former Minneapolis police officer noted.
In response to the spiraling violence at Powderhorn Park, Commissioner Londel French urged people to get to know the vagrants and junkies. “There are some real issues about sanctuary, and I think the way we fix those issues are by having conversations with not only the neighbors and homeowners who live around Powderhorn, but some of the residents of the sanctuary and come up with some solutions to some of the issues that we’re having.”
These hypothetical conversations could involve the drug dealing, prostitution, needles, stolen cars, bodily fluids, and other benefits of having a homeless encampment next door.
French, a Bernie Sanders supporter, had run for office, vowing that he would use the Park Police to test out “new ideas for how policing can engage our communities. Specifically, I will work to ensure that the Minneapolis Park Police to use methods of restorative justice.”
It’s unclear how much the two raped girls are benefiting from French’s restorative justice.
The Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board had voted to cut ties with the Minneapolis Police Department, and banned Park Police from responding to non-violent police calls. It began designing a new green uniform for park cops even as it turned the parks into violent hellholes.
And the 33 officers of the Park Police, who don't have their new green uniforms yet, are in charge of the crisis. But 33 officers are no match for hundreds of junkies and criminals.
In one day, the Park Police dealt with a sexual assault and a fight over a stolen bicycle that was nearly settled with a hatchet. Another day saw a fight with a crowbar over a tent.
“The Park Board has a small enough police force that we can actually make some real change,” French had vowed. “If we don’t do it the right way, our communities burn.”
The change is here.
A park bench in Powderhorn Park had already been set on fire. Twice.
A Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board report noted that that, "MPRB staff are encountering unsafe situations in the evening with locking up the bathrooms" and the portable restroom provider announced that it wants police to be there when its employees service the bathrooms because "encampment residents are going through their vehicles."
If the lefty activists want to defund the police, they’ll have to be the ones fixing the toilets.
Not that it matters because the reports also mentioned high concentrations of “biohazards”.
You too can experience the brave new future of public safety. Just stop by Powderhorn Park. Try not to step on the needles, don’t make eye contact with the junkies, and be ready to run.
And remember, it’s not just public safety in Minneapolis that the Democrats are reimagining.
As Hassan said, it’s public safety in America.
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Hopefully the state will authorize the death penalty for their “leaders” following the sure to come disaster. And please, PLEASE televise the executions.
Such pleasure must be shared.
City Councils across America have voted unanimously to approve a resolution intended to abolish the existing police force and replace it with something else.
At least as safe as Mogadishu.
What exactly that is hasn’t been spelled out yet.
Can anyone spell “Sharia”, Sharia Islamic law, or redundantly Sharia law is a religious law forming part of the Islamic tradition. It is derived from the religious precepts of Islam. Christians, Jews and atheists might consider leaving ASAP!!
Attention citizens MinneapoliStan, Chazistan, San FranciscoStan, SeattleStan, LAStan, NYCStan, and ChicagoStan!
Your new BLM/Sharia/Antifa non police force is here to help you!
Don't call 911!
We will find you!
Have your weekly public safety donation, in cash or Bitcoin, handy in a sealed brown paper lunch bag!
Thank you!
ma'a as-salaama!!!
Remember, don't call us, we will find you when we want to.
Below are pics of some of Obama’s Civilian National Security Force, aka your new
BLM/Sharia/Antifa non police force!
At least as safe as Mogadishu on the Mississippi!
Vote for Mogadishu, get Mogadishu on the Mississippi!
Thanks to DCBryan1 for the photo above!
“Hello, alt-911? A gang is trying to break into my house!!!”
“We know. We’re already there.”
Coming soon to any/all blue cities controlled by insane liberals, who hate cops, your new BLM/Sharia/Antifa non police force!
Mogadishu on the Mississippi!
On one hand I can count the most brilliant conservative minds with fingers left over.
Victor Davis Hanson.
Thomas Sowell (sadly retired).
Dan Greenfield.
Dumb meet Dumber.
Daniel Greenfield has such a way with words. Thank you for keeping up with your ping list. I wonder what Trump is going to announce tomorrow during his “exciting” (his word) plan to fix the out of control Demshevik runn hellholes - I mean cities.
A few gems:
The oppressive system of “white supremacy” was being dismantled one rape at a time.
Minneapolis’ Democrat leaders have reimagined public safety as utter terror.
In response to the spiraling violence at Powderhorn Park, Commissioner Londel French urged people to get to know the vagrants and junkies.
These hypothetical conversations could involve the drug dealing, prostitution, needles, stolen cars, bodily fluids, and other benefits of having a homeless encampment next door.
They are going to reimagine the whole city before long.
Who needs "imagination"? Just take a look at Mogadishu to see what your "approach public safety" will lead to.
I was driving this morning and had some local Minneapolistan talk show on the radio. Apparently Jeremiah Ellison, satan spawn of Keith Ellison, who is on the city council now says it was the cops who turned tail and ran when the going got tough.
There is going to be a war between the cops and the scumbag “leaders” of this schiffhole.
Darn, there goes my escape weekend at the Sheraton Minneapolis Midtown .
That’s what you voted for, B******.
That's what it looks like to normal people.
The mayor told them to abandon their police precinct building and not fight off the rioters/ looters/ arsonists.
Everybody here knows it.
You’re stating facts; I’m commenting on the optics, and how the police feel they’re being perceived.
Exactly.
I know for a fact that Phoenix PD officers are not happy at all about this.
I talked to a friend of mine last night. He is full time at the Guard now but was a cop in a Minnesota city for a time.
He said he would never want to be a cop nowadays. Why do a job when you know you are a target and have no backing from the “leaders”?
Almost 300 years after slavery we told to think of break-ins, lawlessness, and violent crime as justice because some loser robber of pregnant women (at gunpoint, in her belly,) and counterfeiter fag bit it.
No wonder the latinos want NOT to be associated.
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